Japan's homicide rate dropped 70% in the last 50 years, and the nation now has one of the lowest homicide rates in the world. A decline of this magnitude has been documented in few other contemporary social settings. One key feature of the fall is young Japanese males, who now commit ...
The homicide rate in Japan has decreased steadily since 1955, due to a dramatic decrease in homicides by young men. There is no peak in the age-related homicide rate curve in contemporary Japan, and the so-called “universal age-related pattern” has completely disappeared. I believe that ...
birth rates had different signs in the United States and Japan, associated with lower suicide ratesin Japan but higher suicide rates in the United States. Thus, the conclusion appears to be thateconomic factors play a stronger role in determining the Japanese suicide rates while doi...
It was at its lowest in 2012, when 0.71 homicides per 100,000 inhabitant were registered, and at its highest in 2007 and 2020, reaching 1.2. In 2023, the homicide rate stood at 1.15. That year, 124 homicides were reported in Sweden....
From 2013 to 2019, the United States had a gun homicide rate of 4.38 per 100,000 residents, the most out of any other G7 country.
Today’s post is at The Stream:The Murder Rate has Plunged Since 1990…But Big Gov Knows How to Turn That Around. Go there for the narration and data explanation. Here’s a small shot of each of the pictures, which areexpanded at Stream....
Fig. 1. IQ, height and homicide rate in Japan (light blue–gray–bright red). IQ and income correlate at 0.25, which is not statistically significant. However, as described earlier, many high school graduates from rural prefectures go to universities in urban prefectures and spend the rest of...
NEW YORK, July 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) - A study by the United Nations on Monday showed that Asia's average homicide rate is the lowest in the world with on
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Within the context of a decline in US murder GPR, 'youth' homicide has never been higher: up 48% in the last decade. US male and female 'youth and adult' homicide rates were more than five and three times respectively the rate of the next highest country. A substantial number were ...