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[โ€“] yoshi@lemmy.today 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Seeing the raw numbers is impactful and I would also like to see these figures as percentages of the whole since they're comparing different times with different populations.

[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I was gonna say. The US population was 207M when I was born. It's now 335M. I would expect percentages to be far more telling.