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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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 Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:03 pm Post subject: nation master obscure facts |
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I have been browsing the website www.nationmaster.com and there are some pretty obscure things on there. Here is something that surprised me.
There are 2 Subway restaurants in Afghanistan.
Iraq has 10 of them.
I now have a picture in my head of Osama chowing down on a meatball sub.
Can you find anything better? |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Both those countries also have a large amount of North American soldiers. Sorry to disappoint you. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow, really????? I didn't know that, geez...... |
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| USA is Number 1 for crime!!! Yeah baby, number 1. And though we may be #4 for murder, we're coming for the bronze, watch out jamaica. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:28 am Post subject: |
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Assaults per capita. Note there are no asian countries in the top 20...
#1 South Africa: 12.0752 per 1,000 people
#2 Montserrat: 10.2773 per 1,000 people
#3 Mauritius: 8.76036 per 1,000 people
#4 Seychelles: 8.62196 per 1,000 people
#5 Zimbabwe: 7.6525 per 1,000 people
#6 United States: 7.56923 per 1,000 people
#7 New Zealand: 7.47881 per 1,000 people
#8 United Kingdom: 7.45959 per 1,000 people
#9 Canada: 7.11834 per 1,000 people
#10 Australia: 7.02459 per 1,000 people
#11 Finland: 5.32644 per 1,000 people
#12 Iceland: 4.66406 per 1,000 people
#13 Tunisia: 4.02561 per 1,000 people
#14 Jamaica: 3.95943 per 1,000 people
#15 Portugal: 3.59445 per 1,000 people
#16 Chile: 3.32476 per 1,000 people
#17 Norway: 3.2064 per 1,000 people
#18 Netherlands: 2.68964 per 1,000 people
#19 Ireland: 2.47037 per 1,000 people
#20 Mexico: |
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:08 am Post subject: |
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Child injury death index by country
Rank Countries Amount (top to bottom)
#1 Korea, South: 25.6
#2 Mexico: 19.8
#3 Portugal: 17.8
#4 United States: 14.1
#5 New Zealand: 13.7
#6 Poland: 13.4
#7 Czech Republic: 12
#8 Hungary: 10.8
#9 Canada: 9.7
#10 Switzerland: 9.6
#11 Australia: 9.5
#12 Austria: 9.3
#13 Belgium: 9.2
#14 France: 9.1
#15 Japan: 8.4
#16 Germany: 8.3
#17 Ireland: 8.3
#18 Finland: 8.2
#19 Denmark: 8.1
#20 Spain: 8.1
#21 Norway: 7.6
#22 Greece: 7.6
#23 Netherlands: 6.6
#24 Italy: 6.1
#25 United Kingdom: 6.1
#26 Sweden: 5.2
Korea #1!!!
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:10 am Post subject: |
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Male to female earnings by country
Rank Countries Amount (top to bottom)
#1 Korea, South: 41
#2 Japan: 39
#3 Portugal: 30
#4 Spain: 29
#5 Canada: 28
#6 Switzerland: 25
#7 Austria: 25
#8 Germany: 25
#9 Ireland: 25
#10 United Kingdom: 24
#11 United States: 23
#12 Netherlands: 22
#13 Czech Republic: 22
#14 Finland: 21
#15 New Zealand: 19
#16 Poland: 17
#17 Italy: 17
#18 Sweden: 17
#19 Luxembourg: 16
#20 Hungary: 16
#21 Australia: 14
#22 France: 13
#23 Denmark: 12
#24 Belgium: 11
Tae-Han- MinGuk! ###1 #!
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JeJuJitsu
Joined: 11 Sep 2005
Location: McDonald's
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:12 am Post subject: |
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Manslaughters by country
Rank Countries Amount (top to bottom)
#1 Mexico: 18,115
#2 South Africa: 10,961
#3 India: 3,912
#4 Korea, South: 3,737
#5 Turkey: 2,175
#6 Italy: 1,871
#7 Russia: 1,674
#8 Romania: 1,276
#9 Zimbabwe: 969
#10 Costa Rica: 580
#11 Japan: 511
#12 Indonesia: 420
#13 Ukraine: 335
#14 Australia: 296
#15 Thailand: 230
#16 Poland: 190
#17 Yemen: 129
#18 Bulgaria: 112
#19 Portugal: 99
#20 Spain: 95
#21 Belarus: 83
#22 Czech Republic: 80
#23 Tunisia: 58
#24 Canada: 52
#25 Norway: 41
#26 Georgia: 40
#27 Lithuania: 38
#28 Zambia: 31
#29 Finland: 28
#30 Estonia: 27
#31 Latvia: 23
#32 Hungary: 21
#33 Moldova: 21
#34 Denmark: 21
#35 Saudi Arabia: 20
#36 Greece: 19
#38 New Zealand: 10
#39 Ireland: 9
#40 Qatar: 6
#41 Uruguay: 5
#42 Hong Kong: 5
#43 Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: 4
#44 Mauritius: 2
Korea #4! Like World Cup! |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:42 am Post subject: |
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| Just so we`re all clear on what we`re looking at, raw numbers are utterly useless peices of information. Only per captica percentages tell us anything... |
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Teufelswacht
Joined: 06 Sep 2004
Location: Land Of The Not Quite Right
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:02 am Post subject: |
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| Satori wrote: |
Assaults per capita. Note there are no asian countries in the top 20...
#1 South Africa: 12.0752 per 1,000 people
#2 Montserrat: 10.2773 per 1,000 people
#3 Mauritius: 8.76036 per 1,000 people
#4 Seychelles: 8.62196 per 1,000 people
#5 Zimbabwe: 7.6525 per 1,000 people
#6 United States: 7.56923 per 1,000 people
#7 New Zealand: 7.47881 per 1,000 people
#8 United Kingdom: 7.45959 per 1,000 people
#9 Canada: 7.11834 per 1,000 people
#10 Australia: 7.02459 per 1,000 people
#11 Finland: 5.32644 per 1,000 people
#12 Iceland: 4.66406 per 1,000 people
#13 Tunisia: 4.02561 per 1,000 people
#14 Jamaica: 3.95943 per 1,000 people
#15 Portugal: 3.59445 per 1,000 people
#16 Chile: 3.32476 per 1,000 people
#17 Norway: 3.2064 per 1,000 people
#18 Netherlands: 2.68964 per 1,000 people
#19 Ireland: 2.47037 per 1,000 people
#20 Mexico: |
Could it be a reporting issue? Given the attitude to it over here, why bother telling the police? |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:05 am Post subject: |
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| Satori wrote: |
Assaults per capita. Note there are no asian countries in the top 20...
#1 South Africa: 12.0752 per 1,000 people
#2 Montserrat: 10.2773 per 1,000 people
#3 Mauritius: 8.76036 per 1,000 people
#4 Seychelles: 8.62196 per 1,000 people
#5 Zimbabwe: 7.6525 per 1,000 people
#6 United States: 7.56923 per 1,000 people
#7 New Zealand: 7.47881 per 1,000 people
#8 United Kingdom: 7.45959 per 1,000 people
#9 Canada: 7.11834 per 1,000 people
#10 Australia: 7.02459 per 1,000 people
#11 Finland: 5.32644 per 1,000 people
#12 Iceland: 4.66406 per 1,000 people
#13 Tunisia: 4.02561 per 1,000 people
#14 Jamaica: 3.95943 per 1,000 people
#15 Portugal: 3.59445 per 1,000 people
#16 Chile: 3.32476 per 1,000 people
#17 Norway: 3.2064 per 1,000 people
#18 Netherlands: 2.68964 per 1,000 people
#19 Ireland: 2.47037 per 1,000 people
#20 Mexico: |
Interesting how many are developed nations. Iceland? For some reason I would have guess that is one of the "coolest" places on Earth. I'd like to visit anyway.
I take it these stats are only what is reported? Of course.
Where the hell is Montserrat? Ah, I'll look it up. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:26 am Post subject: |
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I think there may be a prety nifty anagram in that thread title...but I'm too lazy to give it a go.
Anyone else up to the challenge? |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Above it all
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:28 am Post subject: |
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Assaults per capita. Note there are no asian countries in the top 20...
#1 South Africa: 12.0752 per 1,000 people
#2 Montserrat: 10.2773 per 1,000 people
#3 Mauritius: 8.76036 per 1,000 people
#4 Seychelles: 8.62196 per 1,000 people
#5 Zimbabwe: 7.6525 per 1,000 people
#6 United States: 7.56923 per 1,000 people
#7 New Zealand: 7.47881 per 1,000 people
#8 United Kingdom: 7.45959 per 1,000 people
#9 Canada: 7.11834 per 1,000 people
#10 Australia: 7.02459 per 1,000 people
#11 Finland: 5.32644 per 1,000 people
#12 Iceland: 4.66406 per 1,000 people
#13 Tunisia: 4.02561 per 1,000 people
#14 Jamaica: 3.95943 per 1,000 people
#15 Portugal: 3.59445 per 1,000 people
#16 Chile: 3.32476 per 1,000 people
#17 Norway: 3.2064 per 1,000 people
#18 Netherlands: 2.68964 per 1,000 people
#19 Ireland: 2.47037 per 1,000 people
#20 Mexico: |
Could it be a reporting issue? Given the attitude to it over here, why bother telling the police? |
I don't know. But I do believe there is less violence in asian, on the streets, and in the bars. I've seen less of it. And when I have seen a confrontation between two Koreans, it's usually all fluff, a scuffle, shouting, pushing, posturing, a few ineffective kicks attempted maybe, a few pitty pat punches at worst. In New Zealand when people scrap someone usually goes to hospital in an ambulance. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:00 am Post subject: |
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| Satori wrote: |
Assaults per capita. Note there are no asian countries in the top 20...
#1 South Africa: 12.0752 per 1,000 people
#2 Montserrat: 10.2773 per 1,000 people
#3 Mauritius: 8.76036 per 1,000 people
#4 Seychelles: 8.62196 per 1,000 people
#5 Zimbabwe: 7.6525 per 1,000 people
#6 United States: 7.56923 per 1,000 people
#7 New Zealand: 7.47881 per 1,000 people
#8 United Kingdom: 7.45959 per 1,000 people
#9 Canada: 7.11834 per 1,000 people
#10 Australia: 7.02459 per 1,000 people
#11 Finland: 5.32644 per 1,000 people
#12 Iceland: 4.66406 per 1,000 people
#13 Tunisia: 4.02561 per 1,000 people
#14 Jamaica: 3.95943 per 1,000 people
#15 Portugal: 3.59445 per 1,000 people
#16 Chile: 3.32476 per 1,000 people
#17 Norway: 3.2064 per 1,000 people
#18 Netherlands: 2.68964 per 1,000 people
#19 Ireland: 2.47037 per 1,000 people
#20 Mexico: |
I love these bogus lists. Gee, guess Iraq and Afghanistan are not places to get assaulted. Or aparantly most of the African nations. Gee, maybe the fact that alot of the countries on this list have functioning rules of law and police officers could lead to people actually reporting assaults. I guarantee the rate of assault is far higher in Korea than most of these countries. They are some slap happy dudes here. |
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