The United States of American Vanity

We’re playing with a new online data visualization tool (for us): Datawrapper, where we’ve taken data from a press release issued by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons indicating the average cost and number of cosmetic procedures performed in the U.S. during 2016 and visualized it. The results are below….

If you’re accessing this article on a site that republishes our RSS news feed, please click here to see the chart (we won’t know until after this post has gone live which, if any, republishing sites will have any issues displaying it – it’s all part of the test drive process!)

Now, for good measure, here’s a map we generated that indicates each U.S. state’s most searched cosmetic procedure according to the Plastic Surgery Portal.

Same rules apply as before!