UN Report Reveals Odds of Being Murdered Country By Country

ananyo (2519492) writes "A new UN report (link to data) details comprehensive country-by-country murder rates. Safest is Singapore, with just one killing per 480,000 people in 2012. In the world's most violent country, Honduras, a man has a 1 in 9 chance of being murdered during his lifetime. The Economist includes an intriguing 'print only interactive' (see the PDF) and has some tongue-in-cheek tips on how to avoid being slain: 'First, don't live in the Americas or Africa, where murder rates (one in 6,100 and one in 8,000 respectively) are more than four times as high as the rest of the world. Next, be a woman. Your chance of being murdered will be barely a quarter what it would be were you a man. In fact, steer clear of men altogether: nearly half of all female murder-victims are killed by their partner or another (usually male) family member. But note that the gender imbalance is less pronounced in the rich world, probably because there is less banditry, a mainly male pursuit. In Japan and South Korea slightly over half of all murder victims are female. Then, sit back and grow older. From the age of 30 onwards, murder rates fall steadily in most places.'"

I've made a decision

[uvajed_ekil]

In order to live as long as possible, I have decided to have gender reassignment surgery to become a woman, and I will move to Antarctica and start a utopian lesbian society, since there are no murders there. I haven't worked out the details yet, but it seems like a no-brainer.

Re:I've made a decision

[Intrepid imaginaut]

Oh you and your facts.

Re:shenanigans

[green1]

My bad, I'll stop confusing the USA with a first world country.

Re:shenanigans

[Michael Woodhams]

Guns don't kill people. Gun-obsessed people kill people.

(I suspect the high velocity lumps of lead may play a part too.)

Re:I've made a decision

[mjwx]

man on LGBT violence appears more prevalent because it always makes the evening news...because the victim always looks Faaaabulous

Erm.. fixed that for you.

Re:Liechtenstein

[purpledinoz]

Not so fast! A banker was shot dead this year in Lichtenstein [bloomberg.com]. Although, since it's a banker, maybe I would count this as a positive killing...

Re:Liechtenstein

[shrewdsheep]

Carefully read the statitics: banker killings are counted negative, so that in Lichtenstein every non-banker murder is offset by a banker-killing. Research shows that indeed the net-effect is zero.

Re:I hate these numbers

[qbast]

Damn, your parents really hated you to give you name like 'holophrastic'.