Not beautiful. More "interesting data set." Source: https://wonder.cdc.gov/ucd-icd10-expanded.html
edited to correct off-by-one error in 5-14 year old column
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2025
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Think of the bottom graph as the absolute, the basis.
Now, think of the top chart as a pie chart of proportional %'s of that basis, for each age group... but its not a bunch of pie charts, its a line plot, where the height of each point = the size of each pie slice.
So if every line is at 10 on the bottom chart, then every line is at 20% on the top chart, because... 5 categories, each is 10, thus each is 20% of the total.
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The other reason they may seem not to match to you is that the bottom chart is log scale, not linear scale.
It is
0 1 10 100 1000 10000
Not
0 10 20 30 40
OP likely went with log scale for the bottom chart because if you did this linear scale...
It would basically just be a smushed together rainbow of lines at the bottom that then sudden blows out into green and brown as cancer and heart failure start killing everyone in their 50s/60s onward.
(EDIT: yep, they actually did a linear scale version, and its as I said lol)
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The top chart though, is %'s.
%'s of all total deaths in that age bracket.
It thus... must be percentages, as... displaying %'s ... on a log scale... would be very weird.
Like... you could do it... I guess?
But I've been doing data analysis and making reports and charts and shit, and reading them, for a decade+, and I don't think I have ever seen anyone plot a proportional % on a log scale.