Top 5 Countries with Cases of Malaria in 2012

The countries that had the most people who had malaria in 2012 are

• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• The Democratic Republic of Congo
• Ghana
• Uganda

Each of these countries had more than 2,000,000 cases. All of these countries are in Africa.

Document Description

This document consists of written material interspersed with code written in a programming language called R. The data was downloaded from http://manage.hdx.rwlabs.org/hdx/api/exporter/indicator/csv/TT008/source/who-gho/fromYear/1950/toYear/2014/language/en/TT008_Baseline.csv and saved to the Desktop. The following steps were required to produce the chart below.

Set the working directory, and read in the spreadsheet with malaria data.

setwd('~/Desktop')
df <- read.csv('TT008_Baseline.csv', stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

Get the libraries needed to filter data and draw charts.

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
df %>% 
  filter(X2012 > 2000000) %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x=Country.name, y=X2012/1000000)) + 
  geom_bar() +
  xlab("Country Names") + 
  ylab("Number of People (in millions)") +
  ggtitle("Countries with more than 2,000,000 cases of Malaria in 2012")