Tuesday, July 14, 2015

More men? or more women?


Ana Swanson writes at the Washington Post Wonkblog,
Women and men are not actually split evenly around the U.S.

Depending on the location and the age group, some places have a lot more women than men, and vice versa -- as a fascinating series of maps by Dadaviz's Jishai Evers shows.

Evers used data from the U.S. Census to create the gif below, showing places in the U.S. where there are more women than men, and vice versa, for different age groups.

The counties with more men than women are shown in blue, and the counties with more women than men are shown in pink. The graphic cycles through maps for Americans of different age groups, starting with people who are five years and younger and ending with people who are 85 years and above.

Read more here.

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