In these two graphs we can discuss the importance of economic growth over time and how this impacts change in environmental indicies. We used the Biodiversity and Habitat score, along with the Environmental Performance Index to determine the change over time these countries produced. We also used the percent change in GDP in these countries to help highlight how an increased resource pool could allow countries to allocate more funds to different sectors of the government to protect their flora and fauna. Along with the change over time between the two years we have a feature to allow the user to hover over a data point to get the country name, original score, and new scores in each respective trait. This allows for easier data interpretation and prevents estimating values.
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