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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

Thanks for looking that up Steve.

WOOF!

The U.S. column is ugly.

I wonder how we compare to a third world country.

Probably impossible to tell due to the nature of third world countries.

Originally Posted by wilnj

This is from the site I linked. First number is homicides, second is rape but I would question the validity of the statistics in some of these. Greenland surprised me though.

Mongolia5.6612.4
American Samoa5.40
United States5.3527.3
Greenland5.31
Zambia5.30
Lithuania5.256.3
Sudan5.162.9
Cuba4.99
Kenya4.872.1
Angola4.85

There's probably a big lack of reporting of crimes to authorities, and also a lack of availability of statistics of what is reported. So if numbers are available, they probably look bad for us, but that's probably because we see a fraction of what's going in third world countries.