Deaths from falling out of bed in the US

As self-storage facilities have multiplied, bed-fall deaths have risen, a correlation of 0.979 that connects America's stuff problem to America's sleep problem with the domestic precision of a chart observing a nation that accumulates both possessions and mortality risks at the same rate. The unit fills, the body falls, and both numbers go up because the same aging, accumulating population drives both trends.

Storage facilities grew from about 44,000 to over 60,000. Bed-fall deaths rose with the aging population. Both seventeen-year upward curves. The storage customers and the bed-fall victims overlap in the broadest demographic sense: aging baby boomers both accumulate possessions that need storing and age into the demographic most at risk for falls.

Seventeen years of storage and bed falls is a demographic dual entry: the same generation fills storage units and falls out of beds, and both numbers go up because the baby boomer wave is large enough to move both metrics. The unit is rented, the bed is hazardous, and the generation occupies both.