Murder data from the FBI, Crime in the United States, 2008.
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Data sources
Number of sheep per country: 2008 UN FOA
Military spending per country: 2008 SIPRI
Military spending per country as proportion of GDP: 2008 SIPRI
Total deaths per war divided by the number of days the war lasted. The width of the “bars” represents the duration of the war. The area underneath the lines represent the total deaths. 2001 to 2003 is only Afghanistan (0.2 per day). 2003 onward is Afghanistan and Iraq combined (2.1 per day).
I find this interesting, both from a data design standpoint as well as from a socio-political standpoint.
Isn’t it taxation without representation when you put your non-voting younger generation so far into debt that you enslave their future?
