Jennifer Lang

@actuarialeye.bsky.social

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Sydney based actuary and director looking at the world through an actuarial eye. Lots of statistics, often feminist. She/her

Graph showing excess mortality for the period 2020-2024 in 40 selected countries across the globe.
Graph showing mortality rates in Australia from December 2019 to December 2024, with waves of high mortality roughly every six months, and the 2024 mortality rates higher than the predicted line of reduction since 2023.
Graph of standardised mortality rates showing the line of average improvement 2015-2019, and showing that all mortality rates from 2021 onwards were significantly higher than the line assuming improvement continued from 2015, with 2022 furthest away from the line.
Lock of hair in a glass case on top of a stand with jewelled rings and lockets
Book Cover for The City and The City, by China Miéville
Book Cover for How the World made the West, a 4,000 year history, by Josephine Quinn
Book Cover for Age of the City, Why our Future will be won or Lost together, by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin
Cover of the book How Big things get done, the surprising factors behind every successful project form Home Renovations to Space Exploration, by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
Table showing the detailed break down of deaths in Australia for 2024 year to June, actual and predicted. There were 92,000 deaths in the first six months, 1,600 more deaths than predicted.