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Is that percent of the population or per 1000?
This is how people generally lie with statistics
Do you think 21% of South Koreans are killing themselves every year? lmao
It's per 100,000 which is somewhat standard for this kind of stat. South Korea's is actually even higher right now at 28.3 for 2024.
Every 100 000.
This is formatted to imply percentage, but for that the decimal points on these should be moved three digits over.
That 16.6 is 0.0166%.
No matter where you put the decimal the difference between the 2 doesnt change. All the numbers are judged by the same metric. How you format them is irrelevant. If you make the 16.6 into 0.0166 then the 6.7 becomes 0.0067 and all youve managed to do is make the numbers harder to understand.