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Originally Posted by Osem
Bar graphs are useful for making quick comparisons but glancing at those provided gives a rather false impression of the numbers because the scales used for the male v female charts are totally different - 0-100,000 for the males but 0-40,000 for the females. I wonder why.
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In this case they're using type of deaths as the comparison rather than male vs female. The value of the x-axis is determined by the dataset for each gender separately rather than together. The higher number of road deaths for men are throwing off the numbers, the female one would look weird if they kept the x-axis the same across both charts.
TBH I think the whole comparison on the world scale has little value because the differences in the causes and solutions between the developed and undeveloped world will be so different.