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It seems that that data gives statistics for a single year, and not the same year for each country. While the annual gun-related death rate may be somewhat stab
by thinkling 14y ago
It seems that that data gives statistics for a single year, and not the same year for each country. While the annual gun-related death rate may be somewhat stable for the U.S., I would guess it varies a lot from year to year in smaller countries depending on whether there was a major incident that year or not. I'd want to look across a similar-size population (e.g. all of EU) and (say) a 10 year span, and then calculate #deaths/year/1,000 population
- mpweiher 14y agoThe Wapo article links to a graph that has the "deaths due to assault" (not limited to guns) for OECD countries: http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2012/07/20/america-is-a-violent-country/ http://www.kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2012/07/20/america-... Luxembourg (total population 1/2 million) has the higher variance you mention, the rest of are pretty stable.