In this section, we take a closer look at the impact of different diseases on life expectancy in different countries. We use a horizontal barchart, sankey alluvial diagram, scatterplot and a geographical map to explore which diseases have the most significant impact on life expectancy, and how differently diseases occur across world regions.
The horizontal barchart exhibits the number of deaths that occurred in a given country. The diseases are grouped by the cause and the most frequent ten causes of death are displayed with horizontal bars.
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In developed countries the main causes of death are age-related cardiovascular conditions, while in a developing country causes like infectious disease, parasites, violent deaths may play a greater role. Cases of deaths are classified into Communicable or perinatal diseases, non communicable diseases and injuries, then they are divided into more specific categories.
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This chart compares the number of deaths for a certain condition with the value of life expectancy for several countries. The chart helps to identify the diseases that have the greatest impact on life expectancy and how strongly they are related to one other.
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Finally, we use a map to visualize which countries have the highest life expectancy and how frequent were deaths due to a specific condition. The number shown on each country is the life expectancy i.e. the average age when one dies, meanwhile the red tone of each country is darker if its the number of deaths due to the selected condition is greater.
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