The GapMinder foundation has a cool tool hosted by Google that lets you compare graphs of development variables against each other over time.  It defaults to Life Expectancy vs. Income per capita, but you can chart other variables as well.  You can see some very interesting movements when you play with the time slider.  Genocides show up as major dips in life expectancy - look at Cambodia in the 70s, Rwanda in the 90s.  To see the impact of AIDS, look at Zimbabwe or South Africa more recently.  A fun tool to play with, though it doesn’t have nearly as much data as some other visualization sties out there.

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