21 June 2006

Curious statistics - Updated

Children, children.  The only person who is allowed to be small-minded and petty on this blog is me.

On y'self Ecuador.

Delighted to see that less people are dying of “accidental alcohol poisoning” - that would be drinking themselves to death to you and I.

Slightly surprised to see that two other categories aren't included here;
  1. Died whilst ice fishing.  Whilst this is mostly a subset of accidental alcohol poisoning there are plenty of other approaches to ending the misery.
  2. Died whilst enjoying the sun.  Whilst the fundamental cause is just short of accidental alcohol poisoning actual death is more likely to be drowning due to accidental alcohol poisoning.
In retrospect with the possible exception of road accidents all the others are principally caused by accidental alcohol poisoning, they have just been re-categorized.
Curious statistics:



Causes of death per 100 thousand of population from 1980 till 2005.

Green – accidental alcohol poisoning
Red – homicides
Yellow – suicides
Blue – road accidents


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21 June 2006

Curious statistics - Updated

Children, children.  The only person who is allowed to be small-minded and petty on this blog is me.

On y'self Ecuador.

Delighted to see that less people are dying of “accidental alcohol poisoning” - that would be drinking themselves to death to you and I.

Slightly surprised to see that two other categories aren't included here;

  1. Died whilst ice fishing.  Whilst this is mostly a subset of accidental alcohol poisoning there are plenty of other approaches to ending the misery.
  2. Died whilst enjoying the sun.  Whilst the fundamental cause is just short of accidental alcohol poisoning actual death is more likely to be drowning due to accidental alcohol poisoning.
In retrospect with the possible exception of road accidents all the others are principally caused by accidental alcohol poisoning, they have just been re-categorized.
Curious statistics:



Causes of death per 100 thousand of population from 1980 till 2005.

Green – accidental alcohol poisoning
Red – homicides
Yellow – suicides
Blue – road accidents


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ecto

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