Homicide Rate in Europe (by country) and the USA (by state) in 2020

"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"

outside of NO, the region is reletively low on education, poverty ridden and low opportunity. its the trio that makes high homicide rate.

Corruption, poor education, overpowered oil/gas lobby, for-profit prison system that encourages recidivism

And that's just scratching the surface

Wasn’t that where true detective season 1 was based in? Says all you need to know.

Get killed... Louisiana fast

Think 15 milly

The data is provided by Eurostat. An EU organisation, they are not going to fund numbers for a country not in the EU anymore (some other countries might still join for various reasons.)

We are on there but we had no killings. Just tragic accidents for the greater good.

Ah yes, the mostly aptly named state, misery.

The UK not being included makes me think that these are only EU member countries? I don't know for sure though.

It looks like their source was the Eurostat Data Browser. Maybe these are just the countries it has data for?

As with all EU policy, the purpose is to make the USA look bad. This is the only reason Russia is not even in the EFTA or the EU.

I have insider information that powers are play are trying to engineer a way to kick out Latvia to make the statistics more embarrassing to you.

PS: UK 1.48, Switserland Not a country, Russia 6.8, Belarus 2.32, Ukraine 3.84 pre-war, Moldavia 2.27 USA 6.38

I don't think adding Russia will make the difference you think it will, since it's barely more violent than the US.

seems to be some non-eu countries...

so many

Two countries are being left out. Is two a high number to you?

Whenever you see a map with data about most European countries but not the UK, it's probably Eurostat. After Brexit they stopped sharing their data.

No data available is what I assumed.

I wanted to say "Duh brexit" but as switzerland is also included and some other non-eu states...

Authright (PCM) has an answer but I won't repeat it here

The leading cause of homicide in the Baltic countries is alcohol. What is interesting is that the victims are usually family members and friends, because you drink at the same table and when you argue, you get angry and it ends badly. It is rare that a person is killed without a connection to the killer, and if it does happen, it makes the national headlines.

During the multiple occupations of the Baltic countries, alcohol was used to control the population. The tsar used it, Stalin used it and now Putin uses it. Alcohol helps to escape from reality and provides comfort. It will take time to overcome the alcoholic generations, measures are being taken to help solve the problem, but you can't change a country where for more than a hundred years alcoholism was the norm.

Hmm Mord means murder though, not homicide, that would be Totschlag. Also there is a note in the sidebox that the graphs include attempted murders.

The German equivalent to Alabama is nearly as bad as the original ;-)

Whoooo Rheinland-Pfalz! Lesgoooo!

Same thing happened to me 😔

No lives matter (except the rich)

It's just another part of the wide range of fantastic options for post-natal abortions, from the fourth trimester onward!

Europe sits further north than the US does.

The homicide rate seems to go down as you move north.

I am willing to bet if you take the most populous cities in each state they'd fall in a similar organization.

So we can reasonably conclude that hot summers make you want to murder a motherfucker.

Obviously. Nothing else could cause this. Nothing.

Clearly thoughts and prayers aren't helping. So it must be the weather.