The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation collects detailed information on global health issues, and produces a number of interesting visualizations.
How people died in 2010 – by cause, age, and filterable by sex and region:
Life expectancy in the US (1989-2009). Who knew it varied so much?
Drill-downable US Causes of Death (1970-2006)
and many many more.
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1 Response to What’s Killing People
Michael F
December 19th, 2012 at 14:33
Why is “poisoning” the only cause of death rising for both sexes in the USA? It’s the cause of that “bump” at the right end of the chart.