Life Expectancy for Newborn Children in US Counties
I wanted to know how life expectancy deviates between U.S. counties and found the perfect dataset from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
In the following map, I’ve colored each county based on the life expectancy for newborn children.
I hope you like it! 😊
The values in the chart may vary slightly from those elsewhere. If that’s the case, it’s because of how they calculate life expectancy.
I’m plotting the life expectancy for children below one year, but traditional life expectancy uses a life table to summarize the mortality patterns of a population of different ages.
It involves summing the years of life remaining at each age and dividing by the total number of individuals in the cohort at birth.
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