I can't recall where I read about it, but I seem to remember that in some cases one country may count infant mortality differently than another. For example, on

I can't recall where I read about it, but I seem to remember that in some cases one country may count infant mortality differently than another. For example, one country may mark a baby's death after birth saying it was born while another may not consider the baby that dies soon after birth as not having been born in the first place. When comparing numbers from country to country one has to make sure they are allowing tallying the numbers the same way. To further your point about statistics not telling you the whole story. I often see statistics that suggest you are more likely to be shot in the US than another country. This suggests that living in the US is a highly dangerous thing and that we all fear being shot on a daily basis. But if you look at the numbers it's generally not as dangerous as it sounds since you are more likely to shoot yourself than be shot by another person. The reason being is that suicide deaths by firearms are often much higher than homicides. The same for the statement I keep seeing that you having a gun in your house increases the likelihood you'll be shot. It's because you're more likely to shoot yourself with it than be shot by someone else. Statistics can be presented in different ways to support different agendas. You have to be willing to look at the raw numbers objectively and consider how they are tabulated to get any meaning out of them. Ty Cobb must have sucked at baseball because over his entire career he failed to get a base hit about 65% of the time at bat.