Spurious

beautifully meaningless correlations

US candle market retail sales

correlates with

Countries with legal same-sex marriage

r = 0.98598% · 2002-2022
US candle market retail salesCountries with legal same-sex marriage

These two datasets have a 98% correlation over 2002-2022. Remember: correlation does not imply causation. But it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively.

Data Sources

US candle market retail salescandles.org
Countries with legal same-sex marriageourworldindata.org
spuriouscorrelation ≠ causation

Share this correlation

PostReddit
Discover More Correlations

Explore thousands of beautifully meaningless correlations