IIRC, the one-sentence summary is that it was a worse killer than all of WW1.
Someone posted the very graph seen in the video several months ago right here at SDMB.
I promptly bookmarked it as “Amazing graph.” But I’ll bookmark this video too!
Yup, that’s it. Sorry for not elaborating more, FoisGrasIsEvil. I took a class on public health in developing countries, and my professor used gapminder in pretty much every lecture. It is a fantastic website and full of loads of information. My friends and I have spent some happy hours changing around the variables and seeing what new information appears. (Um, this was in policy school. Gapminder is like crack for policy wonks.)
From the Gapminder graph, looks like they’re Australia and New Zealand.
Either there’s something wrong with the graph, or every single person in Qatar won the lottery in '69 and managed to blow all the money by the end of the year.
What I see is Qatar off the chart from 1969 to 1977. Is there a way to increase the x-axis range?
Qatar’s very definition was affected by major political reorganization from 1968 to 1972. Perhaps this affected the reporting of its population or income statistic.
I see some countries in Asia and Africa are motionless until at least the mid to late nineteenth century, probably reflecting a lack of data.