[OC] Wie sich die Bedeutung der Religion zwischen 2004 und 2022 verschoben hat (aktualisiert auf Feedback)
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[OC] Wie sich die Bedeutung der Religion zwischen 2004 und 2022 verschoben hat (aktualisiert auf Feedback)
Von oscarleo0
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Data source: [How important religion is to people in life, 2022](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/how-important-religion-is-in-your-life)
Tools used: Matplotlib
Yesterday, I published a chart showing the shift from 1993 to 2022. Today, I wanted to post a new version with different years and using feedback from last time.
Changing years from 1993 to 2004 added 21 more countries to the graph. It should be noted that the year means when the survey ended. The survey that ended in 2022 started in 2017.
The primary feedback that I added was to color the bars between the dots to better show if the importance of religion is increasing or decreasing for that country.
Religion decreasing in importance in Northern Ireland is amazing to see.
This is easier to read thank you for updating it!
I thought it was reversed and got scared
As a general rule of thumb. It seems like the countries with the most problems are also the same ones that religion is important.
This might be a good investment map
That’s a huge decrease in Canada and Chile, what is the root cause of those shifts from pretty different countries who tend to get alot of influence from other countries
A lot of the countries where religious importance increased were in Eastern Europe or the Balkans. Is this just a natural rebound from the more secular lifestyle/policies imposed under the USSR or Yugoslavia?
I know some will say the United States‘ problems of today are the decrease in religion’s importance. I’d see it as a „last gasp“ to force the will of the religious right on everyone else.
Frankly, if people kept their religion to themselves instead of externalizing it to everyone else, many people wouldn’t care where those bars/dots were on that (awesome) graph. Your religion tells you something is wrong? Don’t do it. But don’t tell the rest of us not to do it.
Both increase and decrease have the arrow point to the right are confusing as hell.
Blue dot should stay on the left, and red dot on the right. So when it increase, you’ll see a red bar, and the arrow point to the right; when it decrease, the bar is blue, and the blue bar and the blue point make a blue arrow to the left.
The red colors lead you to believe increases are negative.
Consider using a neutral color pallet
It’s counterintuitive to have something *increasing* in red, *decreasing* in blue.