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You should be thankful that you have 1000 murders a year. We have 3X as many per capita in the US.
by jcromartie 14y ago
You should be thankful that you have 1000 murders a year. We have 3X as many per capita in the US.
- DanBC 14y agoWell, I'm really just comparing rates of murder to rates of completed suicide. From a very quick bit of web searching I find that rate of completed suicide in US is about 11.3 per 100,000 while rate of homicide is 5.5 per 100,000 people. Completed suicide numbers are roughly double homicide numbers. Here's my sources: (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/suicide-in-the-us-statistics-and-prevention/index.shtml http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/suicide-in-the-u...) NIMH (national institute of mental health) say about suicide in the US: > In 2007, it was the tenth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for 34,598 deaths. The overall rate was 11.3 suicide deaths per 100,000 people. (Suicide statistics can be tricky and there are normally a bunch of caveats.) (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm) For 2009: > Number of deaths: 16,799 > Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.5 > Cause of death rank: 15