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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Then if we look at something like homicide, which has an impact on life expectancy. We find that the US had a homicide rate 3.3 times higher than Canada in 2000. Here is a link to a report:
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-...001011-eng.pdf
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Assuming that the homicide rate is unrelated to the overall mortality rate (which I'm not sure it is, unless healthcare providers are in the habit of leaving gunshot victims to die), according to the document you linked the homicide rate in the US as of 2007 was 5.5 per 100 000 population. Taken in the context of the overall mortality rate (as provided in the WHO statistics) of 1080 per 100 000, I'm not sure this can really be considered statistically significant.
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