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VOX: 600 years of war and peace, in one amazing chart
You would not know it from the headlines, but today we're living through one of the most peaceful times in human history. This great chart from Oxford's Max Roser — which shows the global death rate from war over the past 600-plus years — shows just how lucky we are.
The red line in Roser's chart shows the worldwide rate of war deaths per 100,000 people, streamlined over a 15-year moving average. Each red dot shows an individual war or episode of killing; larger dots mean more people died. The blue line, based on a different data set, shows combatant casualties only.
WNU Editor: A very detailed map .... but I also fear that this relative period of "peace" is coming to an end and fast.
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It should be noted that this only goes to 2000, it doesn't cover any of events of the past 15 years, which is something I would like to see and compare with the rest of the data.
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