India has the worlds most murders

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crvlvr

With 1.2 Billion in population, India will top the list in almost any human statistic which is not normalized for population.

capt_mahajan

Yep. Had the same story in the TOI too, and thats what I thought.

I imagine the numbers must be still high, as a percentage of population, though.

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PeakXV

It probably ranks much lower on tourist murders I would suspect.

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shashank.aggarwal

I guess this is an Idiotic report....India is mentioned just for the sake of it..

And how much difference is that :

And read this :

Now according to the CIA site, https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat.../print/us.html, US has around 300 million people, 4 times less than India.


And Pakistan has around 160 million people, around 8 times less than India. I guess anyone can do the maths now.

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capt_mahajan

Yep.

Maybe we don't shoot each other enough? So next headline, "India tops the list in knifings and fisticuffs!"

The_Londoner

I read this story on the Beebs yesterday and I have to say, I was disappointed with the twist of the story. As all have said, rate per 100,000 puts India no where near the top..

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grikoo

What sort of idiot wrote that article......and does he/she have some personal hatred of Indians?

Journalists shouldn't be allowed to use statistics unless they're going to make a meaningful statement.

Here's the best info I could find quickly:

Murders per capita

#1 Colombia: 0.617847 per 1,000 people
#2 South Africa: 0.496008 per 1,000 people
#3 Jamaica: 0.324196 per 1,000 people
#4 Venezuela: 0.316138 per 1,000 people
#5 Russia: 0.201534 per 1,000 people
#6 Mexico: 0.130213 per 1,000 people
#7 Estonia: 0.107277 per 1,000 people
#8 Latvia: 0.10393 per 1,000 people
#9 Lithuania: 0.102863 per 1,000 people
#10 Belarus: 0.0983495 per 1,000 people
#11 Ukraine: 0.094006 per 1,000 people
#12 Papua New Guinea: 0.0838593 per 1,000 people
#13 Kyrgyzstan: 0.0802565 per 1,000 people
#14 Thailand: 0.0800798 per 1,000 people
#15 Moldova: 0.0781145 per 1,000 people
#16 Zimbabwe: 0.0749938 per 1,000 people
#17 Seychelles: 0.0739025 per 1,000 people
#18 Zambia: 0.070769 per 1,000 people
#19 Costa Rica: 0.061006 per 1,000 people
#20 Poland: 0.0562789 per 1,000 people
#21 Georgia: 0.0511011 per 1,000 people
#22 Uruguay: 0.045082 per 1,000 people
#23 Bulgaria: 0.0445638 per 1,000 people
#24 United States: 0.042802 per 1,000 people
#25 Armenia: 0.0425746 per 1,000 people
#26 India: 0.0344083 per 1,000 people

Nick-H

I am afraid that my expectation of any news item concerning India sinks as soon as I see it it is from the BBC. We have been relegated to the funny spot before the weather forecast.

I check the BBC news almost every day --- for some reason, keeping an eye on who's been knifed in Ilford or shot in Hackney gives me some sort of connection to UK. But I don't much look at anything they say about India. I'd rather look at the local papers.

And now, from that funny place where people will worship
you if you have an elephant's head, the latest murder figures...

Yes. Very funny, thank you.

The_Londoner

Sadly it was an Indian, Sunil Raman, from BBC News Delhi.

grikoo

I bet he's getting some from his fellow Indians.



Or does he do this regularly?

Here, I can only watch BBC at about 4am, which means I never watch it.

Jorge Reverter

Problem with the news at bbc are always the headlines. Figures for Pakistan are two times higher than in India (percentage for 100.000 hab) and the country is not in the grikoo's list????

Jorge

sssall

It seems to be a trend amongst newspapers here and now the BBC news website to put every other country and particularly developing countries in a negative light whenever the opportunity arises. This is probably also true of the media of many other western countries.

Also makes you wonder whether a lot of the so called well meaning politicians are just paying lip service in wanting to support the development of poorer nations.

Nick-H

Haven't been there for a while, obviously, but when I was watching the BBC, there seemed a very high number of Indian names in the credits. Didn't seem to stop them talking tosh about India!

grikoo

The stats are from a 1998-2000 UN survey, so not only are they a decade out of date but are also a voluntarily reported survey. This means certain nations may not e represented due to not having provided the data. Only 63 countries are in the list.

Best I could do in 15 seconds.

Clearly shows that India is not likely to be at the top of the list, however.