Statistics

[Ol Mike]

This is FASCINATING !!

WORLD MURDER STATISTICS


>From the World Health Organization

The latest Murder Statistics for the world:

Murders per 100,000 citizens per year.


Honduras 91.6 (WOW!!)

El Salvador 69.2

Cote d'oire 56.9

Jamaica 52.2

Venezuela 45.1

Belize 41.4

US Virgin Islands 39.2

Guatemala 38.5

Saint Kitts and Nevis 38.2

Zambia 38.0

Uganda 36.3

Malawi 36.0

Lesotho 35.2

Trinidad and Tobago 35.2

Colombia 33.4

South Africa 31.8

Congo 30.8

Central African Republic 29.3

Bahamas 27.4

Puerto Rico 26.2

Saint Lucia 25.2

Dominican Republic 25.0

Tanzania 24.5

Sudan 24.2

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 22.9

Ethiopia 22.5

Guinea 22.5

Dominica 22.1

Burundi 21.7

Democratic Republic of the Congo 21.7

Panama 21.6

Brazil 21.0

Equatorial Guinea 20.7

Guinea-Bissau 20.2

Kenya 20.1

Kyrgyzstan 20.1

Cameroon 19.7

Montserrat 19.7

Greenland 19.2

Angola 19.0

Guyana 18.6

Burkina Faso 18.0

Eritrea 17.8

Namibia 17.2

Rwanda 17.1

Mexico 16.9

Chad 15.8

Ghana 15.7

Ecuador 15.2

North Korea 15.2

Benin 15.1

Sierra Leone 14.9

Mauritania 14.7

Botswana 14.5

Zimbabwe 14.3

Gabon 13.8

Nicaragua 13.6

French Guiana 13.3

Papua New Guinea 13.0

Swaziland 12.9

Bermuda 12.3

Comoros 12.2

Nigeria 12.2

Cape Verde 11.6

Grenada 11.5

Paraguay 11.5

Barbados 11.3

Togo 10.9

Gambia 10.8

Peru 10.8

Myanmar 10.2

Russia 10.2

Liberia 10.1

Costa Rica 10.0

Nauru 9.8

Bolivia 8.9

Mozambique 8.8

Kazakhstan 8.8

Senegal 8.7

Turks and Caicos Islands 8.7

Mongolia 8.7

British Virgin Islands 8.6

Cayman Islands 8.4

Seychelles 8.3

Madagascar 8.1

Indonesia 8.1

Mali 8.0

Pakistan 7.8

Moldova 7.5

Kiribati 7.3

Guadeloupe 7.0

Haiti 6.9

Timor-Leste 6.9

Anguilla 6.8

Antigua and Barbuda 6.8

Lithuania 6.6

Uruguay 5.9

Philippines 5.4

Ukraine 5.2

Estonia 5.2

Cuba 5.0

Belarus 4.9

Thailand 4.8

Suriname 4.6

Laos 4.6

Georgia 4.3

Martinique 4.2

And .........The United States 4.2



ALL (109) of the countries above America, HAVE 100% gun bans.



It might be of interest to note that SWITZERLAND is not shown on this list, because it has... NO MURDER OCCURRENCE!



However, SWITZERLAND 'S "law" requires that EVERYONE:

1. Own a gun.

2. Maintain Marksman qualifications ... regularly .



Did we learn anything from this??

[Margarita]

Can you give me a reference for this?

[Ol Mike]

Originally Posted by Margarita

Can you give me a reference for this?

This is what I found.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gu...000-residents/

[Margarita]

Found this after typing "WHO murder statistics" into the server:

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_p...t/en/annex.pdf

Statistics on fire arm deaths on pages 322-323, Table A-10.

Benjamin Disraeli said there were "lies, damned lies, and statistics." Cherry-picking statistics to make a point isn't a good idea when that point can easily be (ahem) shot full of holes when the rest of the statistics are brought into play.

The chart posted in the OP omits other first world countries like the UK and Spain with fire arm related homicide rates of 0.1 and 0.2 respectively. Other European nations have similar rates. Truly enough, Switzerland is not listed; apparently most gun deaths in Switzerland are suicides. I also didn't see firearm related deaths for the third world countries in the list above though those countries were listed in another table for "all homicides." These statistics are from "WHO mortality database as of September 2001." I haven't found newer ones but now I'm all curious and stuff and will have to keep looking.

Before someone decides to jump on me as an hysterical anti-gun nut, I should add that I live in the state with the highest number of registered guns per capita (never mind the unregistered ones) and contribute to those numbers.

[Fe Butte]

You do know the old saying?


Figures don't lie.


But...



Lairs do figures.




And we are overrun with lairs...

[Dinero]

[Infidel!]

Originally Posted by Margarita

Found this after typing "WHO murder statistics" into the server:

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_p...t/en/annex.pdf

Statistics on fire arm deaths on pages 322-323, Table A-10.

Benjamin Disraeli said there were "lies, damned lies, and statistics." Cherry-picking statistics to make a point isn't a good idea when that point can easily be (ahem) shot full of holes when the rest of the statistics are brought into play.

The chart posted in the OP omits other first world countries like the UK and Spain with fire arm related homicide rates of 0.1 and 0.2 respectively. Other European nations have similar rates. Truly enough, Switzerland is not listed; apparently most gun deaths in Switzerland are suicides. I also didn't see firearm related deaths for the third world countries in the list above though those countries were listed in another table for "all homicides." These statistics are from "WHO mortality database as of September 2001." I haven't found newer ones but now I'm all curious and stuff and will have to keep looking.

Before someone decides to jump on me as an hysterical anti-gun nut, I should add that I live in the state with the highest number of registered guns per capita (never mind the unregistered ones) and contribute to those numbers.

Since when did Wyoming require gun registration?