• nichtsowichtig@feddit.orgEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    tbh I’d like to see this map with subregions. The differences within a country can be vast. Some of Brazil’s major cities have lower homocide rates than some of the most dangerious cities in the US

    wikipedia list ranking cities by homocides per 100000 inhabitants.

    São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, two cities widely regarded as dangerous by brazilians, aren’t even in the top 50 on that list, while there are several major US cities. So I think looking only at the country-level you don’t really get a good picture of violence in the americas

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      35·
      2 days ago

      Greenland has a population of only 56k, so difference between zero and American numbers is literally 3 kills.

      As they say, statistics are the worst kind of lies

      • usrtrv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        16·
        2 days ago

        Bingo. I’m sure people could make some great “murder is up/down 300%” clickbait headlines.

      • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
        8·
        2 days ago

        Yeah. Was thinking why is Greenland so high until I remembered Greenland doesn’t even have 100k people in it, so any amount of homicides was gonna drag that number right up

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
        5·
        2 days ago

        But also, Greenland has a ton of social issues. They’re been transitioning from hunter-gatherer (well, mostly hunter) to “modern life” way faster than people in europe or the US did, while still living on a giant block of ice.

    • WereHacker@lemmy.ml
      41·
      2 days ago

      Im surprised to see Greenland counted as america. I mean, the yanks hasn’t aquired the country yet.

      • WereHacker@lemmy.ml
        4·
        2 days ago

        After the danes loosened their grip on Greenland it got a highly developed state and has some of the best data collection anywhere. An interesting anecdote is that their healthcare system is free, but lacking in certain areas, statistics not being one of them. You probably only notice Greenland now, because it shows up as a part of the Americas.

        • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          It’s a joke about how Greenland often appears on maps like this as “no data”, along with extreme isolationist countries like North Korea and disputed areas like Western Sahara.

          Greenland being “no data” is a running joke, like New Zealand not appearing on the map at all.

  • geography082@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 days ago

    Creo que lo que nos mantiene con bajo nivel en comparación, es el fernet con coca, el mate, el asado, el helado y la pastelería.