Deaths from assault
A friend was looking at comparative data on violent deaths in a range of countries and I couldn’t resist the chance to turn out some graphics. The data come from the OECD, who compiles them from contributions by member and associated country governments – effectively, wealthier countries – and makes them available via a web Application Programming Interface in the SDMX format. I ended up with some graphics that I think tell a powerful story.
The data in this post are age-standardised deaths per 100,000 for whole population, male population, and female population; the OECD variables coded as TXCMILTX, TXCMHOTH and TXCMFETF. I’m not an expert in this area – if they mean something else (I’m a little unsure on the age-standardisation) don’t just curse me, let me know.
Compare across countries and sex
Looking at snapshot cross-sectional average data since 1990 (for which there is more comparable data across countries, with a number of countries such as Germany and Czech Republic only coming into existence at or around that period) we see two things that met the “intra-ocular impact test” ie they hit you between the eyes:
- For nearly all the listed countries, males are much more likely to killed in a assault than are females
- The Americas and the former Soviet Socialist Republics (Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) dominate the list of most violent places to live (or rather, to die). Other than countries of these two types, only South Africa makes the top 11 countries. The safer countries include those in eastern Europe (other than former USSR, but including countries that were in its political orbit), Asia, Australasia and western Europe.
Remember that this only shows relatively weathly countries – for a more complete list (but less complete data) check out this Wikipedia list of countries that …read more
Source:: r-bloggers.com