Chart of the Day

Months of life expectancy lost due to homicides in Latin America 1990, 2000 and 2009 (via Brazil Character Lab).

Related Links:

• Global mortality and causes of death visualised
• Your life in jellybeans
• Child Mortality Estimates, by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation
• Kenneth Hill on “Four decades of global mortality change”
• Mortality rates and data for every cause of death in the UK in 2011 visualised