Quite often, the data on repressions are used to demonstrate that a country is not “sufficiently democratic”. Here is some rather interesting data on the prison population in different countries from the International Centre for Prison Studies.

Let’s start with Russia, as it is now again the new enemy #1 of the “democratic world” as announced by ( Read more... )

Bumped into some statistics today and found it interesting enough to share:

• Murders (per capita) by country
• Rapes (per capita) by country
• Walking in the dark by country

Not obvious a priori, say?

I picked out some for you:

Country
Safety Perception
Murder rank
Rape rank

Sweden
85%
#16

Canada
82%

United States
82%

Denmark
81%

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Bumped into some statistics today and found it interesting enough to share:

• Murders (per capita) by country
• Rapes (per capita) by country
• Walking in the dark by country

Not obvious a priori, say?

I picked out some for you:

Country
Safety Perception
Murder rank
Rape rank

Sweden
85%
#16

Canada
82%

United States
82%

Denmark
81%

#14

( Read more... )