FiveThirtyEight has updated its U.S. mortality rates map to comprehend to a greater extent than categories of illness as well as causes of death. The 35 Years of American Death map shows the mortality rates inward each county for the leading causes of exceed away inward the United States. The novel causes of exceed away added to the map include ix categories of chronic respiratory disease, 4 categories of infectious disease, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, self-harm, interpersonal violence, alcohol operate as well as drug use.
FiveThirtyEight's map shows that at that topographic point are or thus geographical trends inward the mortality rates associated amongst many causes of death. In fact nosotros don't fifty-fifty to accept to await at private causes of exceed away to meet that many counties inward rural Appalachia accept really high mortality rates. If you lot desire to know why the mortality charge per unit of measurement is thus high inward these counties as well as thus await at the cancer as well as substance abuse mortality rates inward these counties.
In More Americans Are Dying From Suicide, Drug Use And Diarrhea FiveThirtyEight uses the information from its map to visualize or thus of the changes inward mortality rates for a seat out of diseases betwixt 1980 as well as 2014. These maps exhibit the counties inward the USA where the visualized diseases accept grown or fallen significantly over the final 30 years.
