Check out this elegant example of information visualization focusing on the changes in life expectancy and wealth over the past 200 years.
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interesting stuff. you always come up w/ interesting info and i appreciate it.
Interesting, but also an example of how people can use a presentation format to bend their story. The starting data is about as dispersed as the ending data, with Africa lagging and Europe leading. What looks like a pull-away by richer nations is largely just a change in monetary scale. It is the change in life expectancy that is more profound overall, but perhaps not as profound on a relative basis. Bottom line — there was already a huge disparity in world lifestyles, living conditions and health at the starting point of the analysis. That is not a new phenomenon. Of course, trhere have been some interesting journeys by individual nations.
“What looks like a pull-away by richer nations is largely just a change in monetary scale.”
Money is only a symbol. Change is in monetary scale is always a result and not a cause of of lifestyle improvement.
“Change is in monetary scale”
Minor mistake. Should read: Change in monetary scale…