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Well yes, if you deliberately chose to compare Sweden with only those countries that have better statistics, Sweden will indeed prove to have the worst statisti
by tirpen 5y ago
Well yes, if you deliberately chose to compare Sweden with only those countries that have better statistics, Sweden will indeed prove to have the worst statistics. Truling shocking how that works out.
Here is the same graph of excess mortality with all 27 EU states included: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&hideControls=true&Metric=Excess+mortality+%28%25%29&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=true&Align+outbreaks=false&country=SWE~AUT~BEL~BGR~HRV~CYP~CZE~DNK~EST~FIN~FRA~DEU~GRC~HUN~IRL~ITA~LVA~LTU~LUX~MLT~NLD~POL~PRT~ROU~SVK~SVN~ESP https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
Note how Sweden has the is the sixth lowest of all the countries in the graph.
- gpm 5y agoRather it's the list of countries that Sweden borders on, that are culturally and geographically most similar to Sweden...
- angelzen 5y agoThere is more (and less) to similarity than the shape of the flag. Taking in account economic, geographic and cultural factors, a fair comparison would also consider Germany and Netherlands, possibly also Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and UK. The 'rich germanic protestant NW Europe countries' block. For the nitpickers, Finnish is not germanic and Austria is Catholic, but the point stands. https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/9jyxqt/gdp_per_capita_for_each_european_country https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/9jyxqt/gdp_per_cap... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages#/media/File:Germanic_languages.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages#/media/File...