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Yes, this is aggregated data and it oversimplifies a lot because it is a globally-aggregated statistic. It's basically meaningless on its own, but broadly speaking the charts could be meaningful in some situations. I was curious about this so I looked into their source, which comes from a 'Disease Burden' resource . But I'll share with you guys another tool for viewing this same data in a multitude of perspectives, it's much more granular: https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/ What you want to do from here is go to the 'Explore' tab. Start by setting the display to 'Risk' instead of 'Cause' (but you can also explore Risk data). Select 'Dietary Risks' from the long drop-down. This is where you can select from all of the various dietary risks. Hover over the 'Measure' options and read what they are. YLD's for instance is Years Lived with Disease. Notably, for example, viewing the risk profile of YLD's of 'diets high in red meat' paints a very clear picture of America. Filtering here by age shows an even clearer picture. That being said, there is a ton of data. Have fun ☺️