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Sorry bout your heart (discuss.online)

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 120 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

According to this, per 10,000 people:

Japan: 0.2
US: 19.5

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/homelessness-by-country

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[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago (1 child)

That's what I figured they meant.

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

Yeah, but those other stats are raw numbers. Okay, we have a higher number of unhoused people and food-insecure people, but we also have a higher number of people, period. If you wanna make a point, it has to be per capita. I like how the first stat got this right, but the others did not.

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[–] parody@lemmings.world 13 points 1 year ago

Ya might be a good point but it’s a distracting mess

Thankfully we already know a little bit about both of our situations so we get the gist

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[–] msage@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

US population: ~350M Japan population: ~125M

Not even 3x as much.

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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 year ago

You're not wrong. I'm just saying, if you want to make that point, you should compare per capita.

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[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

.2% per year? So we should expect about 10% of people to be murdered by 50?

I was going to say .2% is better than I thought, but that’s pretty dire.

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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

0.2 people, not percentage. That was what they were trying to straighten out because percent per 100k doesn't make sense.

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