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Per 100k people, the US has 3 times the murder rate of Canada. https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Canada/United-States/Crime https://www.nationma

Per 100k people, the US has 3 times the murder rate of Canada. https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Canada/United-States/Crime https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Canada/Uni... Edit: changed from 23 times to 3 times.

adventured 5y ago
edit: parent changed their comment from claiming the US had a murder rate 23 times that of Canada --- False. Canada has a murder rate typically 1.5 to 2 per year (per 100k). The US murder rate is typically closer to 5. In 2019 there were an estimated 16,000 murders in the US (~4.8 per 100,000). From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Canada "After dropping to a low point of 1.44 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2013, Canada's homicide rate has been rising again.[6] In 2015 the rate rose to 1.68 per 100,000 people, up from 1.47 the previous year.[7] According to Statistics Canada data from 2016, police reported 611 homicides across Canada in 2016, a rate of 1.68 per 100,000 people.[8] Canada's national homicide rate 2017 was the highest it's been in a decade, Statistics Canada says, because of a spike in gang-related violence and shootings. The agency said there were 660 reported homicides in Canada last year. Not only was that an increase of nearly eight per cent from 2016, it also pushed up the homicide rate to 1.8 victims for every 100,000 people, the highest since 2009"
- laputan_machine 5y ago
  You're right, it's 'only' 3 times more, not 23 times more (per 100k).
nine_k 5y ago
Not 23, but 2.5. 23 times is the absolute number, which is easy to explany with the differences of population.
sokoloff 5y ago
When making such a substantive edit (from 23x to 3x), it seems appropriate to disclose the edit.
- laputan_machine 5y ago
  That's fair
okamiueru 5y ago
Not that it really matters to anything, but the term is usually "Per capita" or per unit of population. It doesn't matter if it's per 100k, 200k, etc.

adventured 5y ago

edit: parent changed their comment from claiming the US had a murder rate 23 times that of Canada --- False. Canada has a murder rate typically 1.5 to 2 per year (per 100k). The US murder rate is typically closer to 5. In 2019 there were an estimated 16,000 murders in the US (~4.8 per 100,000). From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Canada "After dropping to a low point of 1.44 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2013, Canada's homicide rate has been rising again.[6] In 2015 the rate rose to 1.68 per 100,000 people, up from 1.47 the previous year.[7] According to Statistics Canada data from 2016, police reported 611 homicides across Canada in 2016, a rate of 1.68 per 100,000 people.[8] Canada's national homicide rate 2017 was the highest it's been in a decade, Statistics Canada says, because of a spike in gang-related violence and shootings. The agency said there were 660 reported homicides in Canada last year. Not only was that an increase of nearly eight per cent from 2016, it also pushed up the homicide rate to 1.8 victims for every 100,000 people, the highest since 2009"

laputan_machine 5y ago
You're right, it's 'only' 3 times more, not 23 times more (per 100k).

nine_k 5y ago

Not 23, but 2.5. 23 times is the absolute number, which is easy to explany with the differences of population.

sokoloff 5y ago

When making such a substantive edit (from 23x to 3x), it seems appropriate to disclose the edit.

laputan_machine 5y ago
That's fair

okamiueru 5y ago

Not that it really matters to anything, but the term is usually "Per capita" or per unit of population. It doesn't matter if it's per 100k, 200k, etc.