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Originally Posted by aceventura3
You say you are not sure, neither am I. That is my point. You have to dig into the numbers. I still don't understand how WHO makes its "adjustments" to life expectancy. whatever assumptions they use could very well materially alter the numbers and any conclusion they reach from the numbers. Getting to seem very subjective to me, but I will read the full report now that I have it.
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Apparently my rhetorical style made my point unclear.
A difference of 5.5 per 100 000 is just over half of a percentage point within the context of the overall statistic. Even if we completely discount homicides we still end up with an overall mortality rate of approximately 1074.5 per 100 000 (inflated from 108 per 1000 to correlate with the homicide statistic). This is still significantly higher than the figures for Canada (720 per 100 000) or the UK (790 per 100 000).
Homicide rates have absolutely no relevance here.
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