[tullatulla]

What's going on with Figure 1? Caption and legend don't match and bars are stacked? And here I thought Nature has some standards...

[stingraycharles]

So they’re stacked, that’s it! I was so confused how all countries could be doubling their population, this is such a weird way to present the data.

[yetanotherloser]

That is one of the worst charts I have seen in many years. Stacking just makes no sense!

[deepsquirrelnet]

I’m glad I’m not the only one. That presentation of data is so offensive to me, it nearly threw me off from reading the article. There are a dozen ways to present that data better. The way the authors chose is so unreadable that it would even be significantly improved as a text table.

[frowin]

I think in the legend,

2021 should be 2027 and 2017 should be 2021.

Otherwise I doesn't make sense to me. Maybe someone wrote by accident 2017 instead of 2027 and then swapped the legend so that it fits the graph's message.

Still, wondering why 6 co-authors, one editor and several peer-reviewers didn't notice it.

Or am I getting the graph wrong?

[zdyn5]

This is Scientific Reports, a separate sub-journal from the same publishing group and not “the” Nature.