Stacked Bar Plot from Scientific Research

The solid vertical black bars show life expectancy in 1990 for each country, and the dashed vertical black bars show life expectancy in 2011. The coloured bars to the right of the 1990 life expectancy line represent the number of years of improvement that were attributed to specific causes of death. Any coloured bars to the left of the 1990 line represent years of worsening of life expectancy attributed to specific causes of death between 1990 and 2011. Coloured bars to the right of the 2011 life expectancy line represent years of improvement attributed to specific causes of death, which are equal to the number of years to the left of the 1990 line. Further details on the methodology for the figure are provided inappendix 1 (p 6). Small proportions visible inappendix 1 (p 1) might not be visible in this figure due to the difference in scale.

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