I can't explain it, but I have a couple of qualified guesses: a) Takata air bags, or more precisely - Takata airbags using the faulty initiators - are dispropo

I can't explain it, but I have a couple of qualified guesses: a) Takata air bags, or more precisely - Takata airbags using the faulty initiators - are disproportionally allocated to the US market for some reason or the other. Perhaps other Takata plants supplying other markets use a slightly different explosive compound than the one being made at Moses Lake?* b) Perhaps authorities in other countries haven't investigated past crashes and concluded that the airbag caused the fatality, rather than the crash itself, hence they cannot claim that the airbag was to blame for any fatality. c) Perhaps they do have confirmed fatalities b/c of a Takata airbag, but haven't reported it to whatever authority provided the numbers for the article (yet, anyway). *) Bingo; found this as I read the article: "He says he hired a propellant specialist to help develop a more stable formula using guanidine nitrate, and since about 2008, Takata in Europe has sold air bags using that. He says Takata’s China team also adopted the formula."