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The choice of regions feels cherry-picked to inflate the blue area on the map. Why else would they include Mongolia, or include only the least-dense regions of the US and Russia while excluding the major population centers?
While South Africa certainly has a lot of murders, both absolute and per capita, this map could easily be draw with a lot less blue on it.
For real, they picked the most barren places on earth (except Europe). Most of the land mass of Canada, Australia, and Greenland are deserted. Midwest US is all farmland. No one lives in Siberia
Yes, but just having pretty much all of Europe is a lot of people. So not as cherry picked as many maps that cherry pick.