Europe Death Statistics


Eurostat has a dataset with statistics on causes of death in the European Union (EU). The highest rate happened in the Baltic countries of Latvia and Lithuania. Heart disease is the leading cause of death across Europe.

Visiting Kaysersberg in Alsace


Newspaper jobs trend


Some people shared an article today that uses data from a very interesting US Bureau of Labor Statistics dataset, showing the publishing jobs trends.

The data shows how information technology had a very important impact on traditional publishing jobs, particularly in the newspaper industry, during the last 25 years.

US Wealth Redistribution through taxes


The Bernie Sanders campaign describes on his campaign website in the section Income Inequality of how Wall Street and the billionaire class have rigged the rules to redistribute wealth and income to the wealthiest and most powerful people of this country.

The White House publishes different [data tables](https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/) related to collected taxes, and one of them shows the percentage paid by individuals and corporations as a percentage of the GDP over time.

Plotting this data in a time series shows that the Vermont senator clearly has a point.

10 Most Populous Countries



1China1376790000
2India1289590000
3United States323661000
4Indonesia257900000
5Brazil206140000
6Pakistan193273000
7Nigeria187200000
8Bangladesh160479000
9Russia141800000
10Japan126700000


10 most populous countries in the world. Almost 60% of the world population lives there. Next page