Saloni Dattani, for Our World in Data, used a set of heatmaps to…
mortality
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Shifting causes of death over the decades
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Increasing alcohol-related deaths
Alcohol consumption, based on ethanol volume estimates, has been rising over the past…
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Full scope of gun deaths in the U.S.
As I’m sure you know, mass shootings, which gain attention because the scale…
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Deaths by Firearm, Compared Against Injury-Related Deaths
Among 1- to 19-year-olds, regulations decreased motor vehicle deaths, but deaths by firearms increased and became the leading mechanism in 2018.
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Lives cut short by Covid
Alyssa Fowers and Leslie Shapiro, for The Washington Post, used the stories of…
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Behind the million
Sergio Peçanha and Yan Wu, for The Washington Post, used a combination unit…
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Reaching 1 million deaths
The New York Times narrated the path to one million Covid deaths in…
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Scale of one million deaths
The United States is about to reach one million confirmed Covid deaths, or…
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Increasing mortality baseline
There was a time not that long ago when a hundred covid deaths…
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When There Were More Deaths Than Births in the U.S.
The two counts have been getting closer to each other. The past couple of years accelerated the process.
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Death rates by vaccination booster status
Our World in Data continues their important work on providing and showing up-to-date…
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Clock shows percentage of life lived so far
Shortlife is a clock by artist Dries Depoorter that simply shows the percentage…
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Increased maternal death in the United States
While still relatively rare, maternal mortality in the United States increased over the…
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Americans are dying too much
Derek Thompson for The Atlantic highlights recent research comparing mortality in America against…
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Black mortality gap
Anna Flagg, for NYT’s The Upshot, used dots arranged as a stacked area…
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Dot density to show Covid-19 deaths over time
The United States passed 425,000 coronavirus deaths this week. For The New York…
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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…
