• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    25 days ago

    % per 100k? This person is making a valid point, but it’s undermined somewhat by the fact they’ve clearly fucked up something.

    • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Not even sure what year this is from cause the murder rate in Japan is .23% per 100,000 as of 2022.

      Interestingly the United States is at 5.7% per 100,000 as of 2023.

      Relevant Wikipedia article:

      ~~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate~~

      And as of 2022 it looks like the Christian population of Japan has declined to around .96% of the total population.

      Edit: That Wikipedia article may have been written by ChatGPT cause the actual total number of homicides in all of Japan in 2022 was 853.

      NonWikipedia source:

      https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h01860/

      • MoonMoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        23 days ago

        As the other guy mentioned, 0.23% per 100,000 doesn’t make sense. That’s like saying 0.23 murders per 100 (cent) per 100,000. One of those per Xs is redundant.

        The Wikipedia page linked says Japan has a murder rate of 0.233 per 100,000 residents. If this made sense as a percent, it would mean a percentage of 0.000233%. But this statistic wouldnt work as a since a “percentage” implies a fraction of a whole, for example 50% of a population is born male.

        The original statistic under discussion says that there are “X number of murder cases per 100,000 people living in country”, rather than “Y% of the country’s population is murder victims”, which wouldn’t make sense anyway since the dead aren’t part of the population; i.e. you wouldn’t see a statistic like “20% of the population is dead” but rather “20% of the population died”, and “90% of the deaths were by murder” rather than “18% of the population is murder victims”.

        Thank you for attending my TED talk.

        Edit: formatting

        Edit: 0.233 murders per 100,000 residents (in 2022) = 126,146,099 (pop of Japan as per the 2020 census) x 0.233 ÷ 100,000 = 294 murders total. The wiki page says the actual count is 289, so the error is probably due the drop in population since the 2020 census.