The United States passed 425,000 coronavirus deaths this week. For The New York…
mortality
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Dot density to show Covid-19 deaths over time
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Lifelines
Using estimates from a report by the Well Being Trust and the Robert…
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Covid-19, the third leading cause of death
For Scientific American, Youyou Zhou made a line chart that shows cause of…
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Multiple Causes of Death
There’s a 6 percent figure from the CDC that could be easily misinterpreted. Here’s what it means.
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Gaps between mortality rates for black and white Americans
For NYT Opinion, Gus Wezerek charted the gaps between white and black mortality…
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Comparing the coronavirus to past deadly events
One way to estimate the impact of the coronavirus is to compare it…
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Possible coronavirus deaths compared against other causes
Based on estimates from public health researcher James Lawler, The Upshot shows the…
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With terminal cancer, a patient tracks drug dose in a dashboard over her final days
Kelly Martin died of cancer on September 30. She was able to enjoy…
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Heatmap shows deaths by age in different countries
This interactive heatmap by Jonas Schöley shows mortality rates by age. Just use…
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Years of life lost due to breathing bad air
Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute estimated the number of…
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Shifting Causes of Death
The most common causes of death changed over the years. They vary across sex and age group. This animation shows the details of these changes.
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Weighing the risk of moderate alcohol consumption
A research study on mortality and alcohol consumption is making the rounds. Its…
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Life expectancy by state, against the US average
FiveThirtyEight continues their look at mortality by geography. This graphic by Anna Maria…
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Life expectancy if all diseases were magically cured
Here’s a fun what-if simulation that imagines a world where all natural causes…
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Mapping death in America, 1980 to 2014
Nationwide mortality data relies on death certificates, and when cause of death is…
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Gun deaths
As an introduction to a series on gun deaths in America, FiveThirtyEight uses…
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U.S. gun deaths rate is an outlier
If you look at gun death rates for other western countries and adjust…
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Rising death rates for white women
Overall life expectancy continues to increase, but looking at it from the other…
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How You Will Die
So far we’ve seen when you will die and how other people tend to die. Now let’s put the two together to see how and when you will die, given your sex, race, and age.
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Causes of Death
There are many ways to die. Cancer. Infection. Mental. External. This is how different groups of people died over the past 10 years, visualized by age.
