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Cool animation of relative incomes and life expectancy

Ted Graham General

http://tools.google.com/gapminder displays the changes in per capita GDP and life expectancy across countries over the last 20 years.  Having just read And the Band Played On, watching the life expectancy in South Africa fall is especially tragic.  The default income scale is logarithmic, changing it to linear makes China's amazing advance a little less impressive.

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