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What is that bump in worldwide deaths around 1985?

• eckyptang 14y ago
  The introduction of New Coke! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke
• libria 14y ago
  I think the bump you're referring to is 1996. A World Bank sourced Life Expectancy chart[1] seems to indicate problems in both South Africa in general and the economic depression in Russia coincide roughly with that time period. //edit: Events in Korea, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Congo caused dips as well. I guess the next question (and an interesting one) would be if there was a human condition of some sort that unified these different situations. [1] http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&ctype=b&strail=false&nselm=s&met_x=sp_dyn_le00_in&scale_x=lin&ind_x=false&met_y=sp_dyn_tfrt_in&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&met_s=sp_pop_totl&scale_s=lin&ind_s=false&dimp_c=country:region&ifdim=country&iconSize=0.5&uniSize=0.035#!ctype=b&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=s&met_x=sp_dyn_le00_in&scale_x=lin&ind_x=false&met_y=sp_dyn_tfrt_in&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&met_s=sp_pop_totl&scale_s=lin&ind_s=false&dimp_c=country:region&ifdim=country&pit=999662400000&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&#...
• run4yourlives 14y ago
  It's actually a bump around 1981 or so, and then a sharp decline, followed by a resurgence in 1985. It seems to occur in the "Heart and Circulatory Disease" category. I'm not sure what this translates to specifically, but if they are classifying AIDS deaths as a "circulatory disease" and not pneumonia, it could be that. There was also a severe famine in Africa in the 80's. Do you die of a heart attack if you are starving? Not sure. It could also just be the pattern of heart disease/healthy living/research was playing out... notice that afterwards, the category accounts for decreasing amounts of death.
• cryofan 14y ago
  VIOXX
• cryofan 14y ago
  VIOXX