Life Expectancy and Health Spending in the OECD
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The visualization exercise of the day for class is a re-creation of a figure I first saw Lane Kenworthy make. It’s a connected scatterplot of total health spending in real terms and life expectancy of the population as a whole. The fact that real spending and expectancy tend to steadily increase for most countries in most years makes the year-to-year connections work even though they’re not labeled as such.
A connected scatterplot of life expectancy against total health spending in the US and eighteen other OECD countries.
Data and code are on GitHub.
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