Online Demo
The demo shows the life expectancy of China and United States from 1900 to 2012.
Data Source
GapMinder data on world-wide life expectation.
Analysis
- Choosing to use the Line Chart is a efficient and recognizable way to observe the difference and tendency of the life expectancy from the two countries.
- As a whole, the life expectancy of the two countries, grows with the development of the society and the GDP growth. And United States is a more developed country than China, which leads to higher higher life expectancy.
- There is a synchronously dropped down in both China and United states between 1910 and 1920, we can speculate that these two countries are involved in the First World War(1914-1918). Many soldiers sacrificed in the war.
- Obviously, there is a sharp decline of life expectancy in China in late 1960s for the reason that people in China were suffering from The Great Famine during that period. But after China's reform and opening up, the living quality of Chinese people is improved and life expectancy are gradually catching up with the United States.