Chart assignment

Charts to read and discuss

Read each chart, then answer its questions. Every chart shows its source and date; open it for a table of the numbers and the data to download.

  1. Which U.S. banks hold the most deposits?
  2. How long do Americans live, and how has that changed since 1900?

Chart 1 of 2 · Banks

Which U.S. banks hold the most deposits?

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JPMorgan Chase Bank held $2.82 trillion in deposits at the end of June 2026, the most of any U.S. bank, followed by Bank of America ($2.12 trillion), Wells Fargo Bank ($1.56 trillion) and Citibank ($1.55 trillion). Deposits are each bank's total, including any at its offices abroad, from its latest quarterly report to regulators; a bank is one legal company, so a group with several banks appears once for each.

Questions to discuss

  1. In one sentence of your own, what does this chart show?
  2. Find the biggest change or difference in the chart. What might explain it?
  3. Who collected these numbers, and how recent are they? What else would you want to know before drawing a conclusion?

Source: FDIC BankFind Suite, institution data (Public domain (U.S. government work; FDIC)) · Data as of Jun 30, 2026

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Chart 2 of 2 · Health

How long do Americans live, and how has that changed since 1900?

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A baby born in the US in 2018 could expect to live 78.7 years, up from 47.3 in 1900. The sharpest drop was in 1918, to 39.1 years, during the influenza pandemic. This CDC dataset stops at 2018; later NCHS reports put life expectancy at 78.4 years in 2023 and 79.0 in 2024, after a fall during the COVID-19 pandemic.

How to read this chart

Each point is how long a baby born in that year could expect to live, if death rates stayed as they were that year. It is an average, so it is pulled down a lot when many babies and young people die. Hover or tap a point to read its year and value.

Questions to discuss

  1. Find the sharpest drop on the chart. What happened in the world that year?
  2. Life expectancy in 1900 was under 50. Does that mean most adults died in their 40s? What else could lower the average?
  3. What changes in medicine, food or public health could explain the long rise?

Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics, Death rates and life expectancy at birth (Public domain (U.S. government work)) · Data as of Dec 31, 2018

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