Conrad Hackett
@conradhackett

Senior Demographer at @PewResearch Also posting at conradhackett.bsky.social & sometimes at sciences.social/@conradhacke…

 Washington, DC
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Joined September 2009
STATISTICS OF THE YEAR: Americans killed annually by All Islamic jihadist terrorists 9 Armed toddlers 21 Lightning 31 Lawnmowers 69 Being hit by a bus 264 Falling out of bed 737 Being shot by another American 11,737 rss.org.uk/RSS/Get_involved/…
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20,035
23,901
Workers working 60+ hours a week in one job 🇹🇷 Turkey 23% 🇰🇷 S Korea 23% 🇮🇩 Indonesia 14% 🇮🇳 India 14% 🇬🇷 Greece 11% 🇯🇵 Japan 9% 🇨🇳 China 6% 🇬🇧 UK 5% 🇫🇷 France 5% 🇧🇷 Brazil 4% 🇷🇺 Russia 4% 🇪🇸 Spain 4% 🇺🇸 US 4% 🇩🇪 Germany 3% 🇸🇪 Sweden 2%
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This map shows travel time from London in 1881
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Check this out -- major cities in North America replaced by major cities across the Atlantic at the same latitude teddit.net/r/MapPorn/comment…
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Each dot is a US adult's guess about the location of North Korea nytimes.com/interactive/2017…
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5,784
We worry about the wrong things. Exhibit A: #SharkWeek People killed annually by Sharks 10 Elephants 100 Hippos 500 Snails 10,000 Dogs 25,000 Snakes 50,000 People 475,000 Mosquitoes 725,000
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3,651
5,161
Los Angeles county is home to more people than each of these 41 states
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2,355
4,888
More chocolate, more Nobel prizes blogs.scientificamerican.com…
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TRUMP EFFECT: Change in % confident in US president from Obama to Trump Sweden 🔻83 points Germany 🔻75 S Korea 🔻71 France 🔻70 Spain 🔻68 Canada 🔻61 UK 🔻57 Australia 🔻55 Brazil 🔻49 Mexico 🔻44 Russia 🔺42 points pewglobal.org/2017/06/26/u-s…
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3,024
3,831
Watch the income distribution in America change
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5,087
4,134
Trickle down: Income growth in America from 1980 to 2014 Top .001%: 616% growth Top .01%: 423% growth Top .1%: 298% growth Top 1%: 194% growth Top 10%: 113% growth Bottom 20% 4% growth washingtonpost.com/news/wonk…
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3,654
Check out this cool elevation map of the contiguous US by @cstats1
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Be sure to catch the end of this clever @NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021 climate.nasa.gov/climate_res…
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Where nobody in the UK lives map by @georgia_corr
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Half of all Americans live in the red counties, half live in the orange counties
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Here's a scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages). One country sits alone in the bottom right quadrant due to its much higher spending and below-average life expectancy. Source: oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae30…
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Population density: Half of all Americans live in the red counties, half live in the orange counties
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2,479
3,133
People killed annually by Sharks 10 Elephants 100 Hippos 500 Snails 10,000 Dogs 25,000 Snakes 50,000 People 475,000 Mosquitoes 725,000
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U.S. men's facial hair styles in college yearbooks from 1898-2008 teddit.net/r/dataisbeautiful…
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Which US state has the largest share of people with ancestry from each European country?
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Deaths from police shootings (latest available year) US 409 Germany 8 Britain 0 Japan 0 economist.com/news/united-st…
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8,336
3,071
People killed annually by Sharks 10 Elephants 100 Hippos 500 Snails 10,000 Dogs 25,000 Snakes 50,000 People 475,000 Mosquitoes 725,000
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1,909
3,018
Nation of immigrants
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3,010
2,914
CEOs of big companies Guys named John: 5% Women (all names): 4% nytimes.com/2015/03/03/upsho…
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1,760
2,790
How confidence in America's president changed from Obama to Trump Germany 76🔻points Sweden 76🔻 France 75🔻 Netherland 73🔻 Spain 68🔻 Canada 58🔻 Australia 52🔻 UK 51🔻 Japan 48🔻 Brazil 47🔻 S Korea 44🔻 Mexico 43🔻 Italy 41🔻 Israel 20🔺 pts pewglobal.org/2018/10/01/app…
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1,837
2,355
Where is Iran? Each dot represents an American's guess. morningconsult.com/2020/01/0…
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2,772
Half of all Americans live in the blue counties
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1,351
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Mesmerizing: Most popular names for girls jezebel.com/map-sixty-years-…
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2,522
Watch the income distribution in America change
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Always remember: When Harvard, Yale & Princeton didn't top early US News #BestColleges rankings, the statistician was replaced & algorithm adjusted.
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2,327
Nation of immigrants
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1,012
2,210
Los Angeles county is home to more people than each of these 41 states
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Income gains going to top 1% in 1954-7: 5% 1975-9: 25% 2009-12: 95% nyti.ms/1BhNrQq
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US: Pew Research Center analysis finds that Democrats and Republicans in Congress are now farther apart ideologically than at any time in the past 50 years. Republicans have moved further to the right than Democrats have to the left. pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20…
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Each dot is a US adult's guess about the location of North Korea nytimes.com/interactive/2017…
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941
2,045
Where nobody in the US lives map by @nikfrrr
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667
2,039
Gender pay gap 🇰🇷 S Korea 31% 🇮🇱 Israel 24% 🇯🇵 Japan 22% 🇺🇸 US 17% 🇨🇦 Canada 17% 🇬🇧 UK 14% 🇩🇪 Germany 14% 🇫🇷 France 12% 🇹🇷 Turkey 10% 🇪🇸 Spain 8% 🇮🇹 Italy 8% 🇧🇪 Belgium 4%
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2,810
2,008
Share of kids *not* learning a foreign language in school US 80% Germany 18% Italy 18% Finland 16% Sweden 8% Spain 4% Poland 2% France 0% Austria 0% Norway 0% pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20…

Most European students are learning a foreign language in school while Americans lag

A median of 92% of European students are learning a language in school. Far fewer K-12 students in the U.S. participate in foreign language education.

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Never married 21-36 year olds In 1965: 17% In 2017: 57% pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20…
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1,237
1,938
TRUMP EFFECT: Change in % confident in US president from Obama to Trump Sweden 🔻83 points Germany 🔻75 S Korea 🔻71 France 🔻70 Spain 🔻68 Canada 🔻61 UK 🔻57 Australia 🔻55 Brazil 🔻49 Mexico 🔻44 Russia 🔺42 points pewglobal.org/2017/06/26/u-s…
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I love this map of population change from 1840 to 2021. The world has six times more people now than it did in 1840. Most countries also have a lot more people. Ireland is an exception - it actually had more people in 1840.
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Puerto Rico status today 43% lack water access 88% lack electricity fema.gov/hurricane-maria
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Check out how land is used in the United States. Cows take up the most space! bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-…
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Time to look back at 2017 - this is a thread of tweets I sent that generated the most engagement
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February disapproval ratings in first term Reagan 18% Bush 13% Clinton 25% Bush 21% Obama 17% Trump 56% people-press.org/2017/02/16/…
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This map shows travel time from London in 1881
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Los Angeles county is home to more people than each of these 41 states
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1,762
Never married 21-36 year olds In 1965: 17% In 2017: 57% pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20…
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1,699
Check out how land is used in the United States. Cows take up the most space! bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-… First in a 🧵 of #2022TopTweets
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Share of national income held by top 1% Russia 20% US 20% UK 14% China 14% Canada 14% Germany 13% Sweden 9% Australia 9% Norway 8% Denmark 6% nytimes.com/2017/11/17/upsho…
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1,663
1,567
Each dot represents a US adult's guess about the location of Ukraine washingtonpost.com/blogs/mon…
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Murders in Brazil = Murders in all blue countries combined metrocosm.com/homicides-braz…
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Host most refugees 1 🇹🇷Turkey 2 🇵🇰Pakistan 3 🇱🇧Lebanon 4 🇮🇷Iran 5 🇺🇬Uganda 6 🇪🇹Ethiopia 7 🇯🇴Jordan 8 🇩🇪Germany 9 🇨🇩DR Congo 10 🇰🇪Kenya
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Income gains going to top 1% in 1954-7: 5% 1975-9: 25% 2009-12: 95% nyti.ms/1BhNrQq
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Weeks the median male worker needed to work to afford a year's worth of major expenses (house, a car, health care and education) for a family of four in 1985: 30 weeks (out of 52) 2018: 53 weeks (out of 52) americanaffairsjournal.org/2…
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Can you spot the circles? It took me a long time. Once you see them, they'll seem obvious. This is the Coffer Illusion, by Anthony Norcia
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2017 hierarchy of needs
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How the distribution of income in America has changed
Conrad Hackett
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How gerrymandering can change election outcomes, in one chart washingtonpost.com/blogs/won…
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Amazing map: Where people are concentrated
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Deaths in terrorist attacks this year Blue: In Europe Red: In Africa rts.ch/info/monde/9016433-le…
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The blue area is home to the same number of people as the red area! metrocosm.com/the-global-ext…
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These 41 states have smaller populations than Los Angeles county (10,138,000 in 2016)
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BREAKING: Support for the Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare") has never been higher (54%) pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20…
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2022 Press Freedom Rank 1 Norway 2 Denmark 3 Sweden 16 Germany 19 Canada 24 UK 38 Taiwan 42 US 43 S Korea 71 Japan 86 Israel 110 Brazil 117 Indonesia 119 Qatar 149 Turkey 150 India 155 Russia 168 Egypt 175 China 178 Iran 180 N Korea rsf.org/en/index
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How the distribution of income in America has changed
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Deaths from police shootings US 461 (*updated, likely undercount) Germany 8 Britain 0 Japan 0 #Ferguson
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Never married 21-36 year olds In 1965: 17% In 2017: 57% pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20…
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If you study this image, your brain will recognize there are 12 dots. But no matter how long you stare, your eyes won't be able to recognize them all at once.
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Each dot is a US adult's guess about the location of North Korea nytimes.com/interactive/2017…
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Half of all Americans live in the red counties, half live in the orange counties
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Where nobody in France lives within 1 km map by @matamix
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The devastating spread of opioid overdose deaths
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In a classic experiment, 12 articles were resubmitted to the same journals in which they had already been published. Three were recognized as resubmissions. Eight of the nine articles reviewed again were rejected, often due to "serious methodological flaws."
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Press freedom rank 2017 1 🇳🇴Norway 16 🇩🇪Germany 22 🇨🇦Canada 40 🇬🇧UK 43 🇺🇸US 103 🇧🇷Brazil 155 🇹🇷Turkey 176 🇨🇳China rsf.org/en/ranking
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Press freedom rank 2017 1 🇳🇴Norway 16 🇩🇪Germany 22 🇨🇦Canada 40 🇬🇧UK 43 🇺🇸US 103 🇧🇷Brazil 155 🇹🇷Turkey 176 🇨🇳China rsf.org/en/ranking
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Alcohol death rates in Europe teddit.net/r/dataisbeautiful…
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Say religion is very important 🇮🇩Indonesia 95% 🇮🇳India 80% 🇧🇷Brazil 74% 🇺🇸US 53% 🇲🇽Mexico 37% 🇮🇱Israel 34% 🇬🇧UK 21% 🇫🇷France 14% 🇨🇳China 3%
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Crime has been falling dramatically but year after year, most Americans say crime is increasing pewresearch.org/fact-tank/20…
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1,053
Population density: Half of all Americans live in the red counties, half live in the orange counties
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Share of national income held by top 1% Russia 20% US 20% UK 14% China 14% Canada 14% Germany 13% Sweden 9% Australia 9% Norway 8% Denmark 6% nytimes.com/2017/11/17/upsho…
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1,056
Most popular names for boys
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American exceptionalism: Health care spending vs. life expectancy ourworldindata.org/the-link-…
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1,037
Population density: Half of all Americans live in the red counties, half live in the orange counties
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NEW: Tax revenues as % of GDP Denmark 46% France 45% Sweden 44% Italy 43% Norway 38% Germany 38% Iceland 36% Spain 34% UK 33% NZ 32% Canada 32% 🇺🇸US 26% oecd.org/newsroom/social-sec…
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Adults with post-secondary degrees (US) Hindus 96% Jews 75% Muslims 54% Buddhists 53% Unaff 44% Christians 36% pewforum.org/2016/12/13/reli…
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1,011
Mesmerizing: Most popular names for girls jezebel.com/map-sixty-years-…

Map: Six Decades of the Most Popular Names for Girls, State-by-State

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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Have no confidence in Trump Spain 93% Mexico 91 France 90 Germany 90 Greece 83 Sweden 82 Brazil 78 Tunisia 76 UK 70 Russia 69 Japan 66 Australia 66 Hungary 60 Poland 56 Israel 31 pewglobal.org/2018/10/01/tru…
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The rich get richer: How income gains have shifted toward the richest Americans over time nytimes.com/interactive/2017…
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1,002
1,004
Deaths by gun this year: 13,136
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Income gains going to top 1% in 1954-7: 5% 1975-9: 25% 2009-12: 95% nyti.ms/1BhNrQq
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Say religion is very important 🇮🇩Indonesia 95% 🇮🇳India 80% 🇧🇷Brazil 74% 🇺🇸US 53% 🇲🇽Mexico 37% 🇮🇱Israel 34% 🇬🇧UK 21% 🇫🇷France 14% 🇨🇳China 3%
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People killed annually by Sharks 10 Lions 100 Crocodiles 1000 People 475000 Mosquitoes 725000 gatesnotes.com/Health/Most-L…
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Let them watch TV.
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994
How income distribution in America has been changing
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US adults with post-secondary degrees Hindus 96% Jews 75% Muslims 54% Buddhists 53% Unaff 44% Christians 36% pewforum.org/2016/12/13/reli…
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Nation of immigrants
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Sand, magnified over 100 times, looks like this mashable.com/2014/01/16/sand…
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Nation of immigrants
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NEW: Have no confidence in Trump Spain 93% Mexico 91 France 90 Germany 90 Greece 83 Sweden 82 Brazil 78 Tunisia 76 UK 70 Russia 69 Japan 66 Australia 66 Hungary 60 Poland 56 Israel 31 pewglobal.org/2018/10/01/tru…
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