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Adam302 t1_iudaukj wrote

There's a good chance I am a bit thick, but I have no idea how to understand this.

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vacri t1_iudbjyb wrote

The richer the country, the better the air quality, except in Africa where a bad line-of-fit makes it look like it's deadly to be wealthy there.

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enakcm t1_iudpd1d wrote

How to understand this: there is no or only a very weak correlation between how rich a country is and how many people die from pollution.

In other words: awareness is more important than wealth to prevent pollution deaths.

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Creative_Elk_4712 t1_iugvpqi wrote

As gdp increases, in every continent (there are showed the continent curves for the expected deaths by given gdp value) the trend is that country’s citizens are less affected in a serious way by air pollution (here showed by air pollution deaths). You have the position crossed with dotted lines for the average country in the world

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