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To put things in perspective, Sweden's 2022 homicide rate (according to Wikipedia) is 1.1 per 100k people, which puts it in the same range as Denmark, Finland,
by yongjik 2y ago
To put things in perspective, Sweden's 2022 homicide rate (according to Wikipedia) is 1.1 per 100k people, which puts it in the same range as Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, and Greece. The US sits at 6.4/100k, with the safest state (Rhodes Island) at 1.5/100k, still above Sweden.
- tharne 2y ago> To put things in perspective, Sweden's 2022 homicide rate (according to Wikipedia) is 1.1 per 100k people, which puts it in the same range as Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, and Greece. The US sits at 6.4/100k, with the safest state (Rhodes Island) at 1.5/100k, still above Sweden. At the rate Sweden is going, however, they're going to have a rate double that of Rhode Island by the 2030's and on par with the U.S. by the following decade.
- coldtea 2y agoNation-wide rates can be misleading if the rate in certain areas is way higher. Especially in places were rural areas have almost non-existent homicide rates