Living longer, everywhere

One dot per country, placed on a life-expectancy axis and laned by region.

plotOptions.unit.layout: 'scatter' places each unit on a numeric X value axis by its own value, laned by category on Y, and draws the axis + lanes itself. scatter.spread: 'swarm' packs equal / close values off the centre line with no overlap, so the lane becomes a density silhouette (not the blur of a random jitter). Switching the year is a plain chart.updateSeries(), so every country dot tweens to its new place. The unit chart is a premium type; without a license it renders with a trial watermark. Figures are approximate (public-health style).