The Geography Of Death

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 stance of mortality rates inward every U.S. county from 1980 to 2014.

The maps present around regional variations inward the mortality rates for dissimilar causes of death. FiveThirtyEight highlight around of these regional variations inward the article beneath the map. For example, 12 counties inward rural Appalachia are with the meridian twenty counties with the highest mortality rates inward the whole country. In the meridian twenty counties with the lowest mortality rates xviii of them are westward of the Mississippi.

FiveThirtyEight are likewise using the mortality rates map to illustrate a serial of articles examining the relatively high mortality rates inward the Black Belt. The commencement of these articles examines how Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery.