Per Capita Country Comparisons
Comments criticize comparing absolute statistics across countries without population adjustments, especially pitting the large US against smaller nations, and advocate for per capita rates or other normalizations for fair analysis.
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Going up doesn’t mean anything. Compare relative amounts per capita to OTHER countries.
what if you adjust for size of country/state and population density before judging, does that help?
You're comparing absolute numbers. What about as a % of population?
If it's geographically, then don't account per capita. Account absolute values per country.
The framing of this comparison is fraught due to unequal bucketing. Most other countries are the size of US states or even cities, so they can boast individually low numbers while in the US everything gets bundled together. The US should instead be compared to something like all of Europe or all of Western Europe.
Those numbers would be more informative if they compared to country populations.
Divide by population, absolute numbers doesn't give a fair picture.
Curious why population is even a factor here. If it legitimately should be... why not compare states of the US with states of the EU? (Seems a roughly equivalent thing to do)
You'd need to bring down those numbers to a per-capita basis for them to be relevant though, I don't think America is anything special.
That's a meaningless comparison unless you account for population differences. Per capita would be useful to show.