How to draw elegant figure in such a way?

Recently, I browsed into the news web site and found this article about 2011. The thing attracts me is the figure they use to show the data, please check the picture below. I think it is beautiful and anyone knows how to make the graph in such a way?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/summarizing-2011-nine-easy-charts?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zerohedge%2Ffeed+%28zero+hedge+-+on+a+long+enough+timeline%2C+the+survival+rate+for+everyone+drops+to+zero%29

_{(source: zerohedge.com)}

It seems like not from excel and google spreadsheet as well.

Solution

I finally found tableau as a software to do my thing. It is beautiful