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That's a very odd table. Did you notice that if you sort by Homicide, nearly all the top 20 are in the Americas?
by phaemon 12y ago
That's a very odd table. Did you notice that if you sort by Homicide, nearly all the top 20 are in the Americas?
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- dragonwriter 12y agoIts only 75 "countries and dependencies" in a world of something like 190 countries (not counting dependencies). I suspect that the weighting toward the Americas isn't that the Americas are more violent, but that the Americas happened to host the countries in the intersection of higher gun homicide rates and sufficient stability to collect and report meaningful statistics.