Age-standardised death rates due to homicide and assault per 100 000
Grey means no data
Most surprised about Finland
Germany so green because of “terrible” life expectancy compared to western neighbors
UK, Sweden, Finland can into the Baltics.
I can post the actual numbers by country if you guys want, but it ll take a bit of time
WTF means “age standardized”??
Serbia is very safe compared to other European countries, I definitely wouldn’t feel safer in Paris.
Why are Baltics so unsafe?
I see map full of funny colours and number go up on the left. What is this number and how is it relevant?
I cannot make any sense from this. What does this mean? Does it mean rate of homicide compared to rate of death at a certain age? Does it mean age of homicide compared to that age-groups regular life expectancy? Does it mean how often a certain age group kills someone from within their age group? What am In seeing here?
That’s not how numbers work in English. 100,000 is what you meant. What you’ve written there is 100.
Why didn’t you use the same increment for all “homicide groups”? There is 0.09 for one group (0.5-0.59) and 0.32 for another (0.99-1.31).
And how do you know if a country with rate 0.69 should be in group 0.59-0.69 or 0.69-0.79?
So most homicides in Germany are committed by newborns and infants, whereas the Baltics and Romania are terrorized by murderous toddlers. OK.
UK statistics are probably made up from London and Birmingham with the postcode gang stabbing each other. Rest of the country is normal and peaceful for the most part.
Embarrassing, now we are closer to nordicks stats, instead of being central european.
Honestly all European murder rates are so low and so similar that it makes no sense for me to make separate map just for those countries, and even less sense to make this extreme color contrast between dark red and dark green. It creates the impression of some gigantic abyss between say Poland and Romania, while the actual difference is super low 0,7 vs super low 1,3 so it’s not even two times higher in Romania, while still being on the super miniscule crime level. So people in both Poland and Romania have pretty much the same safety from homicide.
The map also weirdly excludes Russia, which has murder rate of around 7,00, so 10 times higher than Poland, and 5 times higher than Romania – it looks as if Russia was excluded specifically so countries like Romania (1,3) and Baltic (2,0-2,9) could be artifically displayed as some hellholes. I don’t think that was the author’s intention, I just see many problems with such organisation of data.
The lower the number, the worse it gets. If you go to Norway they will kill you on sight.
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Source: Eurostat database latest numbers(2020)
Age-standardised death rates due to homicide and assault per 100 000
Grey means no data
Most surprised about Finland
Germany so green because of “terrible” life expectancy compared to western neighbors
UK, Sweden, Finland can into the Baltics.
I can post the actual numbers by country if you guys want, but it ll take a bit of time
WTF means “age standardized”??
Serbia is very safe compared to other European countries, I definitely wouldn’t feel safer in Paris.
Why are Baltics so unsafe?
I see map full of funny colours and number go up on the left. What is this number and how is it relevant?
I cannot make any sense from this. What does this mean? Does it mean rate of homicide compared to rate of death at a certain age? Does it mean age of homicide compared to that age-groups regular life expectancy? Does it mean how often a certain age group kills someone from within their age group? What am In seeing here?
That’s not how numbers work in English. 100,000 is what you meant. What you’ve written there is 100.
Why didn’t you use the same increment for all “homicide groups”? There is 0.09 for one group (0.5-0.59) and 0.32 for another (0.99-1.31).
And how do you know if a country with rate 0.69 should be in group 0.59-0.69 or 0.69-0.79?
So most homicides in Germany are committed by newborns and infants, whereas the Baltics and Romania are terrorized by murderous toddlers. OK.
UK statistics are probably made up from London and Birmingham with the postcode gang stabbing each other. Rest of the country is normal and peaceful for the most part.
Embarrassing, now we are closer to nordicks stats, instead of being central european.
Honestly all European murder rates are so low and so similar that it makes no sense for me to make separate map just for those countries, and even less sense to make this extreme color contrast between dark red and dark green. It creates the impression of some gigantic abyss between say Poland and Romania, while the actual difference is super low 0,7 vs super low 1,3 so it’s not even two times higher in Romania, while still being on the super miniscule crime level. So people in both Poland and Romania have pretty much the same safety from homicide.
The map also weirdly excludes Russia, which has murder rate of around 7,00, so 10 times higher than Poland, and 5 times higher than Romania – it looks as if Russia was excluded specifically so countries like Romania (1,3) and Baltic (2,0-2,9) could be artifically displayed as some hellholes. I don’t think that was the author’s intention, I just see many problems with such organisation of data.
The lower the number, the worse it gets. If you go to Norway they will kill you on sight.