一張圖告訴你：各國人過早死 罪魁禍首是？
Somewhere in the world today, 150,000 people are going to die. And then tomorrow, another 150,000 will have their lives cut short. And the sad reality is where you're born will have a significant effect on how you die, and at what age.
今天一天，這個世界上就會有15萬人去世，明天呢，又會有15萬人……令人悲傷的事實是：你的出生地對你以何種方式死亡、幾歲死亡都有着重大影響。
Recently, hundreds of researchers from around the world joined together to collect and analyse those statistics for each country, and the results have been visualised in a map showing the number one causes for early death around the world.
最近，數百位來自世界各地的研究人員共同對每個國家的這些數據進行採集與分析，接着將結果可視化在一張地圖內，展示出世界各地區人們過早死亡的罪魁禍首。（見上圖）
Some of the results are a grim reminder of what we already know - Africa isn't getting sufficient access to vaccines and medical professionals, so its top reasons for early death are infectious diseases: pneumonia, diarrhea, HIV/AIDS, and malaria.
有些研究結果在我們已知的殘酷現實上又撒了把鹽——非洲缺乏足夠的疫苗和專業醫護人員，因此非洲人民過早死亡的主要原因是傳染病：肺炎、痢疾、艾滋病和瘧疾。
More surprising is the phenomenon of deadly road accidents in Saudi Arabia. Even though only 50 percent of the population are permitted to drive, traffic accidents are the number one cause of lost years of life. Thanks to the crazy antics its drivers get up to and the barely enforced speed limits, 19 people will die on Saudi roads every day.
更令人驚訝的是沙特阿拉伯致命的交通事故。即使那裏只允許50%的人口駕車，交通事故仍然是死亡的主要原因。沙特阿拉伯每天就有19人死於車禍，就是因爲那些瘋狂的駕駛風格和限速制度的缺乏。
On the other end of the scale, there's the disease that gets us when we're creeping too close to old age: heart disease. It's the leading cause of lost years of life in the world's richest countries.
在這組數據範圍的另外一端，我們能看到那所謂的“老年病”——心臟病。在那些富裕國家，心臟病是壽命損失的一大原因。
