So i was looking up health care statistics when i came across the "Murder rate (intentional homicide) world ranking"

Quote :

"Intentional Homicides Per 100,000 People, 2000-2004 Ranked Lowest to Highest Rank Country/Region Rate ------- ---------------------------- ---------- 1 Myanmar 0.2 2 Sudan 0.3 3 Egypt 0.4 4 Japan 0.5 5 Singapore 0.5 6 Botswana 0.5 7 Morocco 0.5 8 Madagascar 0.5 9 Hong Kong 0.6 10 United Arab Emirates 0.6 11 Oman 0.6 12 Vanuatu 0.7 13 Greece 0.8 14 Denmark 0.8 15 Austria 0.8 16 Norway 0.8 17 Qatar 0.8 18 Ireland 0.9 19 Luxembourg 0.9 20 Saudi Arabia 0.9 21 Jordan 0.9 22 Iceland 1 23 Netherlands 1 24 Germany 1 25 Kuwait 1 26 Bahrain 1 27 Indonesia 1.1 28 Syria 1.1 29 Spain 1.2 30 Italy 1.2 31 Tunisia 1.2 32 Australia 1.3 33 New Zealand 1.3 34 Maldives 1.3 35 Brunei 1.4 36 Algeria 1.4 37 Belgium 1.5 38 Slovenia 1.5 39 Nigeria 1.5 40 France 1.6 41 Poland 1.6 42 Cyprus 1.7 43 Chile 1.7 44 Fiji 1.7 45 Portugal 1.8 46 Malta 1.8 47 Croatia 1.8 48 Canada 1.9 49 Tonga 2 50 United Kingdom 2.1 51 Hungary 2.1 52 China 2.1 53 Korea South 2.2 54 Czech Republic 2.2 55 Slovakia 2.3 56 F.Y.R.O.Macedonia 2.3 57 Sweden 2.4 58 Romania 2.4 59 Malaysia 2.4 60 Azerbaijan 2.4 61 Mauritius 2.5 62 Armenia 2.5 63 Israel 2.6 64 Finland 2.8 65 Dominica 2.8 66 Bolivia 2.8 67 Switzerland 2.9 68 Iran 2.9 69 Bulgaria 3.1 70 Nepal 3.4 71 India 3.7 72 Turkey 3.8 73 Yemen 4 74 Palestinian Territories 4 75 Philippines 4.3 76 Sant Kitts andNevis 4.8 77 Peru 5.5 78 United States 5.6 "

Sudan has the worlds 2nd lowest murder rate? didnt they just have a genocide?

8/21/2009 12:22:38 AM

homicide != genocide

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[Edited on August 21, 2009 at 12:25 AM. Reason : haha]

8/21/2009 12:23:46 AM

It's possible that they're classifying genocide-related killings as non-murder.

8/21/2009 12:23:59 AM

genocide is a subset of homicide

8/21/2009 12:24:20 AM

what the hell do people in st kitts have to get so pissy about?

8/21/2009 12:25:42 AM

Or, more specifically, that a homicide is only deemed to have happened following a government prosecution of the individual and a guilty verdict.

You can bet that pretty much never happens in Sudan.

8/21/2009 12:25:47 AM

Quote :

"In some cases the intentional homicide rate differs from the standard definition or refers to only part of a country. "

8/21/2009 12:27:38 AM

Quote :

"a homicide is only deemed to have happened following a government prosecution"

that was my first thought but im sure whomever did the rank thought of that
there has to be a more sophisticated way of going about this
otherwise places like afghanistan would be right up there

8/21/2009 12:28:20 AM

this is a good thread

8/21/2009 12:44:56 AM

one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic

8/21/2009 12:46:12 AM

The statistic is from 2000-2004; Sudan was officially in a period of civil war until 2005. They probably categorize casualties of war as being different from intentional homicide, and the low figure is most likely a result of the difficulty of assessing the difference between a garden-variety murder and a politically motivated or war-related attack.

8/21/2009 12:49:33 AM

i would like to think the makers of this list were sophisticated enough to account for these things
i'll agree though that genocides may be left out but still hard to believe sudan is in the top 20

8/21/2009 12:59:04 AM

I thought this was gonna be "how many times a day do you scratch your head?"

I was gonna guess 30?

8/21/2009 1:52:32 AM