FiveThirtyEight has mapped the mortality rates inward the USA for all of the leading causes of death. 35 Years Of American Death provides a choropleth thought of mortality rates inward every U.S. county from 1980 to 2014.
The maps demo approximately regional variations inward the mortality rates for dissimilar causes of death. FiveThirtyEight highlight approximately of these regional variations inward the article beneath the map. For example, 12 counties inward rural Appalachia are amid the meridian xx counties alongside the highest mortality rates inward the whole country. In the meridian xx counties alongside the lowest mortality rates xviii of them are due west of the Mississippi.
FiveThirtyEight are besides using the mortality rates map to illustrate a serial of articles examining the relatively high mortality rates inward the Black Belt. The start of these articles examines how Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery.
