A great animated chart showing the likelihood of dying at different ages over the years. I would think demographic data like this would be ripe for interesting visualizations. Nice job understandinguncertainty.org!

Two earlier posts/versions (one & two) don’t go back as far, but include the detailed explanation and some additional breakdown by risk factors.

ps – this data is for the UK.
pps – the same site conducts a similar analysis of Charles Minard’s famous infographic of Napolean’s 1812 campaign (odds of dying as the campaign goes on), as well as a cool animated bubble heat map of the size and location of the army: