100% agreed, and I shared the above only partly to provide an answer, but mostly to flag some major caveats. Another great example: "The U.S. incarceration rat

100% agreed, and I shared the above only partly to provide an answer, but mostly to flag some major caveats. Another great example: "The U.S. incarceration rate is 693 per 100,000 residents —compared to 76 per 100,000 in Germany, and 69 per 100,000 in the Netherlands." There is some real academic research on the topic, but as far as international comparison goes, it's not a solved issue. For example, this paper basically concludes that countries should update their reporting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743246/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743246/