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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

Can anybody out there find the per capita statistics? There's soooo much imperial propaganda on these searches but not much actual data.

edit: Here's some rough numbers of these states doing the division manually (per million people):

  • 8.74 Iran
  • 8 Saudi Arabia
  • 2 Iraq
  • 1.33 North Korea (approx)
  • 0.07 United States
  • ??? China

Ofc there might be countries with higher per capita rates, but it's hidden behind a flood of propaganda.

[–] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

~~Europe: 0 (if you exclude Belarus)~~

~~The deterrent effect of the death penalty isn't proven. I don't see positive effects if it doesn't help to prevent crimes. (there are other measures which do work)~~

~~I'm glad that it is that way here. I wouldn't want to live in a country that threatens to kill its inhabitants.~~

Edit: on second thought, my comment is off topic. Since the question was how many and not why. Sorry.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The raw numbers are in your link and the population is probably on Wikipedia. Getting to the per capita numbers shouldn't be that hard.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah. I just added that to my comment. But this might not include other countries.

I think the biggest tell is how imperial news constantly talks about Iran and NEVER talks about Saudi Arabia.

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 2 points 23 hours ago

If Saudi didn't provide oil, they'd be just as condemned. It's sad.

Both are bad, of course. But it may be emotionally charged, but i think Saudi is much worse. I think western outlets should condemn Iran, and Saudi. But we both know they aren't condemning Iran out of morality.