This is indeed beautiful, but IMO any visualization that includes both historical data and future projections needs an obvious dividing line between the two.
jontegz24 on
This is what I see when I listen to music especially when I’m high lol
robert1005 on
Ah, some actual beautiful data presentation. Only missing some lines on the horizontal lines to make it a bit easier to read the data from the y-axis.
veganontop on
So.. the amount of 20-year olds was never higher than amount of 60 year olds? How is that even possible?
TheModelMaker on
It’s nice as art- bad for interpretability.
frolix42 on
Projections for the year 2100 depend on forecasting how many children that our not yet born grandchildren will be having.
Probably too far out to be meaningful.
mtmttuan on
Cool looking shape. I barely get any info looking at the data, maybe only the fact that they have low reproduce rate.
Not_a_N_Korean_Spy on
“If you carefully look at the data represented at the labia minora…”
Rentahamster on
That’s either a Dementor’s hood, or a vagina.
OKStamped on
This looks like the cover for a Statistics 101 college textbook.
Desperate_Opinion243 on
For those unfamiliar with “Population Pyramids” it may be helpful to view some traditional point-in-times ones first if you struggle to read OP’s graphic which overlays multiple timeframes
This is actually a truly brilliant way to represent this data. A clear dividing line at which it’s no longer records but predictions would be good.
blahehblah on
Something is wrong with this data, unless I’m reading this wrong. Side note: beautiful plots should always have acid labels.
In the past there was a majority of 0-15yos. In future there is a majority of 65-80yos. But the time in between has no majority of mid aged people. Where are all the people going and arriving from if they’re not aging?
chikenlegg on
Everything reminds me of her…
Mikky48 on
Stunning work, specifically the interactive version.
I’ll be honest, I never understood why these sites enable projections by default, but it’s nice that I can filter out to the current year.
TatonkaJack on
This is beautiful but basically illegible
88yj on
Finally something beautiful
Diggy_Soze on
It’s pretty and at the same time absolutely worthless. Dafuq? Lmfao.
Can we go back to graphs that intuitively share information, rather than their whole use being that they look like a vulva?…
![Population pyramid of Puerto Rico, 1950-2100 [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/58o3csg0g05g1-1024x576.jpeg "Population pyramid of Puerto Rico, 1950-2100 [OC]")
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Units: Percentage of population by sex and age (5-year age groups). Each line is a year.
Data: World Population Prospects of 2024, United Nations
Tools: PowerQuery (data preparation) and Vega (visualization)
For an animated version and other countries: [https://www.wisevis.eu/showcase/showcase-piramides-etarias-animadas/](https://www.wisevis.eu/showcase/showcase-piramides-etarias-animadas/)
This is indeed beautiful, but IMO any visualization that includes both historical data and future projections needs an obvious dividing line between the two.
This is what I see when I listen to music especially when I’m high lol
Ah, some actual beautiful data presentation. Only missing some lines on the horizontal lines to make it a bit easier to read the data from the y-axis.
So.. the amount of 20-year olds was never higher than amount of 60 year olds? How is that even possible?
It’s nice as art- bad for interpretability.
Projections for the year 2100 depend on forecasting how many children that our not yet born grandchildren will be having.
Probably too far out to be meaningful.
Cool looking shape. I barely get any info looking at the data, maybe only the fact that they have low reproduce rate.
“If you carefully look at the data represented at the labia minora…”
That’s either a Dementor’s hood, or a vagina.
This looks like the cover for a Statistics 101 college textbook.
For those unfamiliar with “Population Pyramids” it may be helpful to view some traditional point-in-times ones first if you struggle to read OP’s graphic which overlays multiple timeframes
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/about/archives/2024/references/population-pyramids-by-region/
Everything reminds me of her
I have seen this shape before
This is actually a truly brilliant way to represent this data. A clear dividing line at which it’s no longer records but predictions would be good.
Something is wrong with this data, unless I’m reading this wrong. Side note: beautiful plots should always have acid labels.
In the past there was a majority of 0-15yos. In future there is a majority of 65-80yos. But the time in between has no majority of mid aged people. Where are all the people going and arriving from if they’re not aging?
Everything reminds me of her…
Stunning work, specifically the interactive version.
I’ll be honest, I never understood why these sites enable projections by default, but it’s nice that I can filter out to the current year.
This is beautiful but basically illegible
Finally something beautiful
It’s pretty and at the same time absolutely worthless. Dafuq? Lmfao.
Can we go back to graphs that intuitively share information, rather than their whole use being that they look like a vulva?…
everything reminds me of her