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Most certainly seconded. I also need to know if it's based on total rates or per capita to account for differences in population. One also needs clearer information on crime rates since what can be defined as a crime is incredibly varied.

Precisely. The CO2 emissions per capita put us at number 5, while total is at number 1. The US is one of the largest countries in the world, therefore it follows that our total emissions would be higher.

Citation http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_co2_emi_percap-environment-co2-emissions-per-capita

This site also seems to be where the comic got their data, but instead of using per capita data they used simple totals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#UN_Statistics

Still, even without normalization South Africa may be larger.

And Canada doesn't appear to even come close either in total or per capita. This thing is complete BS.

NZ has fewer people than many US cities, so the presence of it in the second cartoon suggests that the stats would have to be per capita.

My guess is the data is cherry picked to make the point.

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