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  "alt": "Dumbbell chart with one row for each of the most populous counties, joining a Black life expectancy dot to a white life expectancy dot. Every white dot is to the right of the Black dot, and rows are ordered from the widest gap, in Cook County, to the narrowest.",
  "caption": "Every white dot lies to the right of the Black dot, and the last column gives the gap. The plot shows life expectancy for each group with the 95% interval published by County Health Rankings; rows run from the widest gap to the narrowest.",
  "data": [
    {
      "county": "Cook County, IL",
      "hi_black": 70.41,
      "hi_white": 80.28,
      "le_black": 70.23,
      "le_white": 80.17,
      "lo_black": 70.04,
      "lo_white": 80.06,
      "population": 5109292
    },
    {
      "county": "Alameda County, CA",
      "hi_black": 73.56,
      "hi_white": 81.6,
      "le_black": 73.07,
      "le_white": 81.37,
      "lo_black": 72.59,
      "lo_white": 81.15,
      "population": 1628997
    },
    {
      "county": "Wayne County, MI",
      "hi_black": 69.01,
      "hi_white": 76.61,
      "le_black": 68.77,
      "le_white": 76.43,
      "lo_black": 68.53,
      "lo_white": 76.25,
      "population": 1757043
    },
    {
      "county": "Los Angeles County, CA",
      "hi_black": 73.4,
      "hi_white": 79.93,
      "le_black": 73.19,
      "le_white": 79.84,
      "lo_black": 72.97,
      "lo_white": 79.74,
      "population": 9721138
    },
    {
      "county": "Maricopa County, AZ",
      "hi_black": 73.51,
      "hi_white": 79.17,
      "le_black": 73.08,
      "le_white": 79.06,
      "lo_black": 72.65,
      "lo_white": 78.95,
      "population": 4551524
    },
    {
      "county": "King County, WA",
      "hi_black": 76.03,
      "hi_white": 81.56,
      "le_black": 75.48,
      "le_white": 81.41,
      "lo_black": 74.92,
      "lo_white": 81.26,
      "population": 2266789
    },
    {
      "county": "Miami-Dade County, FL",
      "hi_black": 73.69,
      "hi_white": 78.8,
      "le_black": 73.37,
      "le_white": 78.53,
      "lo_black": 73.06,
      "lo_white": 78.25,
      "population": 2673837
    },
    {
      "county": "Harris County, TX",
      "hi_black": 72.89,
      "hi_white": 77.81,
      "le_black": 72.68,
      "le_white": 77.67,
      "lo_black": 72.47,
      "lo_white": 77.52,
      "population": 4780913
    },
    {
      "county": "San Diego County, CA",
      "hi_black": 76.09,
      "hi_white": 80.64,
      "le_black": 75.56,
      "le_white": 80.51,
      "lo_black": 75.04,
      "lo_white": 80.37,
      "population": 3276208
    },
    {
      "county": "Dallas County, TX",
      "hi_black": 72.92,
      "hi_white": 77.72,
      "le_black": 72.67,
      "le_white": 77.53,
      "lo_black": 72.42,
      "lo_white": 77.34,
      "population": 2600840
    },
    {
      "county": "Kings County, NY",
      "hi_black": 77.81,
      "hi_white": 82.14,
      "le_black": 77.57,
      "le_white": 81.97,
      "lo_black": 77.33,
      "lo_white": 81.79,
      "population": 2590516
    },
    {
      "county": "Clark County, NV",
      "hi_black": 72.18,
      "hi_white": 76.33,
      "le_black": 71.8,
      "le_white": 76.15,
      "lo_black": 71.42,
      "lo_white": 75.98,
      "population": 2322985
    },
    {
      "county": "Santa Clara County, CA",
      "hi_black": 79.3,
      "hi_white": 82.61,
      "le_black": 78.26,
      "le_white": 82.4,
      "lo_black": 77.21,
      "lo_white": 82.18,
      "population": 1870945
    },
    {
      "county": "San Bernardino County, CA",
      "hi_black": 71.37,
      "hi_white": 74.84,
      "le_black": 70.92,
      "le_white": 74.61,
      "lo_black": 70.46,
      "lo_white": 74.39,
      "population": 2193656
    },
    {
      "county": "Riverside County, CA",
      "hi_black": 74.9,
      "hi_white": 77.92,
      "le_black": 74.39,
      "le_white": 77.72,
      "lo_black": 73.88,
      "lo_white": 77.53,
      "population": 2473902
    },
    {
      "county": "Tarrant County, TX",
      "hi_black": 74.29,
      "hi_white": 77.28,
      "le_black": 73.95,
      "le_white": 77.11,
      "lo_black": 73.61,
      "lo_white": 76.94,
      "population": 2154595
    },
    {
      "county": "Orange County, CA",
      "hi_black": 78.78,
      "hi_white": 81.01,
      "le_black": 77.87,
      "le_white": 80.86,
      "lo_black": 76.96,
      "lo_white": 80.72,
      "population": 3151184
    },
    {
      "county": "Queens County, NY",
      "hi_black": 77.92,
      "hi_white": 80.61,
      "le_black": 77.62,
      "le_white": 80.39,
      "lo_black": 77.31,
      "lo_white": 80.17,
      "population": 2278029
    },
    {
      "county": "Bexar County, TX",
      "hi_black": 74.4,
      "hi_white": 76.82,
      "le_black": 73.89,
      "le_white": 76.59,
      "lo_black": 73.38,
      "lo_white": 76.36,
      "population": 2059530
    },
    {
      "county": "Broward County, FL",
      "hi_black": 77.48,
      "hi_white": 78.5,
      "le_black": 77.18,
      "le_white": 78.28,
      "lo_black": 76.88,
      "lo_white": 78.05,
      "population": 1947026
    }
  ],
  "id": "le_black_white_counties",
  "notes": [
    "County Health Rankings computes life expectancy from NCHS death counts for racial and ethnic groups that do not overlap, so the Black and white groups here are non-Hispanic and exclude Hispanic residents of any race. Counties with fewer deaths have wider intervals, and the intervals in this figure are County Health Rankings' own.",
    "The counties are the most populous ones among those with both estimates, which is the sample behind the headline gap."
  ],
  "source": "County Health Rankings 2024 (NCHS deaths 2019-2021); full counts of deaths, county life expectancy by race",
  "spec": {
    "deltaLabel": "Gap, white minus Black (years)",
    "hi1": "hi_black",
    "hi2": "hi_white",
    "label1": "Non-Hispanic Black residents",
    "label2": "Non-Hispanic white residents",
    "lo1": "lo_black",
    "lo2": "lo_white",
    "sort": "change-desc",
    "x1": "le_black",
    "x2": "le_white",
    "xDomain": [
      64,
      86
    ],
    "xFormat": {
      "digits": 1
    },
    "xLabel": "Life expectancy at birth (years)",
    "y": "county"
  },
  "subtitle": "Life expectancy at birth in years, non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic white residents, for the most populous counties with both estimates, deaths in 2019 to 2021",
  "title": "In each of the {fact:n_dumbbell} most populous counties, white residents live longer than Black residents, by {fact:gap_min_big} to {fact:cook_gap} years",
  "type": "dumbbell",
  "width": "wide"
}