Celebrating a nice-looking chart is much easier than understanding exactly what is making the line change direction.Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Shutterstock; Getty.December 19, 2024, 7 AM ET Americans are unusually likely to die young compared with citizens of other developed countries. The U.S. has more fatalities from gun violence, drug overdoses, and auto accidents than just about any other similarly rich nation, and its obesity rate is about 50 percent higher than the European ave...