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> homicide is not a leading cause of death for most demographics. That's a downplaying, dismissive phrase. Most western democracies have a homicide rate of 0.5
by vacri 10y ago
> homicide is not a leading cause of death for most demographics.
That's a downplaying, dismissive phrase. Most western democracies have a homicide rate of 0.5-1.5/100k population/year. The US is an outlier amongst this group at ~4.8/100k/y. But even in Honduras, with the runaway worst homicide rate in the world at around 85/100k/year, an eye-gogglingly high rate, homicide is not a 'leading cause of death for most demographics'.
- sevenless 10y agoIt is not dismissive to put death rates into perspective. It is noteworthy that homicide is the number one cause of death for US Black males, 15-34 years old, as per 2013 CDC data. The death rate from homicide for age 20-24 is about 86.6 per 100,000 per year, worse than the Honduras average. This is true for no other demographic group surveyed in the United States. See page 35 of http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr65/nvsr65_02.pdf http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr65/nvsr65_02.pdf For White males, 15-24 years, homicide is the #3 cause of death while suicide is #2. Almost certainly, homicide would also be the leading cause of death for young Honduras males, though I don't have that data.