Is France really so far above the European average? Or am I reading this wrong?
things don’t doing well in the french overseas regions?
Likely the same reason for the US
i doubt that, the us is in worst conditions than many third world countries
Half that spike is the US Navy.
French overseas regions are officially part of France, while US except Hawaii are not, so they likely are not counted in this statistics for US. Also the France has 4-4,5% of total population in overseas territories while US have around 1% so their impact in case of France would be also over 4 times greater.
So it’s most certainly just the good US of A.
Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands aren’t counted?
I looked at the source and no, they aren’t, just the proper states.
Not much is proper in the states these days.
That’s wild!
I am french. I already saw these figures and tried to understand why it was like that. The figures might be technically correct but it doesn’t make sense to compare them with other countries. 5000 people dying each year of hunger, it would be revolting.
We do not let people die of starvation in France, unless we think it is the best thing to do. We have this concept of “sédation profonde et continue”. Assisted suicide is prohibited in France. So people that suffer from uncurable decease can stop receiving food and hydratation until they die. They continue to receive painkiller or are even put in coma because letting them die that way is legal and considered the most human thing to do. A french christian newspaper wrote an article about it End of life: Are we really letting patients to die of hunger and thirst in France?. They are really opposed to assisted suicide and even them are OK with this process. So technically, we are letting people die of hunger.
About people suffering from hunger, we have food bank to help them, meal costs 1€ at university… It is far from perfect but we are not letting people die like the figures would let imagine.
About overseas regions, it is not that poor. The poorest overseas region, Mayotte, has been mostly destroyed by a cyclone two years ago. Both public services and NGOs thanks to a lot of donation reacted quickly to avoid famine. The situation is still bad but people are not starving.
Hope I answer the question
Thank you!
Vietnam undefeated
Be aware, very old people die from this as a secondary cause from a primary of Alzheimer’s and other dementias. They just stop eating. It’s a misleading statistic to use to identify poverty based malnutrition.
Why is France also an outlier?
Dunno. I’m a US nurse. I don’t know how France does their death certificates. Wouldn’t surprise me that they’re more granular though.
Gave a detailed answer: https://lemmy.ml/post/46593201/25415914
Ah, thanks. I figured that, like the US, it was some kind of other policy that had a side effect of artificially skewing the numbers.
What’s the US’s excuse in this case?
Go read the comment I initially replied to.
Yeah, but those are poor people, so 🤷♂️
That’s it, I’ve fucking had it with these cherry picking communists on Lemmy ml. You’re no better than hardcore capitalists, horse shoe theory and all that. Time to block more aggressively
How exactly is this cherry-picking? Communists wanting everyone to have food and be taken care of are entirely different from capitalists that want to suck the surplus value out of every worker. Horseshoe theory is wrong.
Why is France so high?
Gave a detailed answer: https://lemmy.ml/post/46593201/25415914
Probably because France counts their colonies as part of France. Mayotte specially has to be contributing to this
This is a fantastic example of using selective information to mislead people. It‘s completely omitting important details like
- France‘s much older population (malnutrition deaths are much more common in the elderly)
- Data reliability (France‘s data is very comprehensive, while data from countries with authoritarian governments is less reliable; the IHME tries to (opaquely) compensate for that, but that‘s only possible by imputation and modeling, which is less reliable by definition)
- Differences in recording deaths (France has a multiple-cause-of-death recording system, while many other countries only record a single cause; this means malnutrition as a result of another disease is much more likely to be recorded in France)
- Ignoring counterexamples (include Germany, the UK, Austria, New Zealand or many other countries with a capitalist system and suddenly it doesn‘t really seem like there‘s any correlation between a country’s system and malnutrition deaths)
Sorry, but this graphic can only be seen as plain propaganda, if you actually look into the data it‘s based on.
Regarding point 1, this is relatively true.
Regarding point 2, all of these states are “authoritarian,” the difference being which class has authority, and which classes has authority imposed upon them. Cuba, the PRC, and Vietnam are all socialist countries with the working class in charge of the state, while France, Europe, and the US are all imperialist countries/regions where capitalists control the state and impose their authoritarian rule upon the working classes.
Regarding point 3, this could be a possible explanation but requires actual backing.
Regarding point 4, it’s important to compare not just systems dogmatically, but against peers, and what came before. Germany, the UK, Austria, etc. are all imperialist countries, and thus have greater access to resources. It matters both how much resources you have, and what you do with them. Socialist countries have more pro-social policy that stretches resources farther.
In total, it certainly is propaganda in that it’s trying to convey a specific point for a specific aim, just like your comment can be considered propaganda. You offer some decent ideas of how to improve the data, but you also insert your own biases without backing them up, and run into metaphysical errors regarding how these are compared (such as ignoring levels of development and imperialism).
Propaganda? On lemmy.ml?? Never!!!
A bit odd coming from the instance currently trying to fake a Neo-Nazi takeover of an anarchist instance just because Feddit.org and Lemmy.world admins got outed as Zionists.
westerners – americans in particular – live in a strange world where reality is treated like propaganda and propaganda is treated as natural human reality; i know this to be true because i also once believed it.
This strange world, in which I replied to a comment refuting this propaganda :O
“Data from authoritarian countries is less reliable”
Uh-oh.
Please tell me, which countries/peninsulae on the graph are authoritarian, and which are not.
Authoritarian (Bad Guys) ((Not white))
Also being white is a weird definition. The Chinese, Mongolian, Korean, Japanese have a very white color of skin. Slavic people too have a white skin. But in both cases, they are not considered white.
Even Russians got kicked out of being white
Russia has always been part European and part Asian. The city of Kazan’ is a proof of that.
Data from authoritarian countries is less reliable
Part of the ideology of white-supremacy, is that proximity to whiteness means trustworthiness and authenticity, and distance from it means untrustworthiness.
So white supremacists think only the western countries (and their allies like South Korea, Japan, and other US military base countries) data and educational institutions can be trusted, while the numbers coming from any country opposed to them must inherently be a lie.
Comparing western countries with countries like Vietnam and treating it like reliable data.
If you’ve ever seen basically anything about rural Vietnam (or most other Asian countries), you’ll know that it’s basically impossible for the state to actually count deaths, let alone death causes.
And what makes data from Vietnam not reliable…?
So you consider France a communist country ? I dont get it
It’s sarcasm.
When they counted, they counted hundreds of thousands! We didn’t count therefore the number is zero, well done! The good and simple people of Starvation Land can sleep easy knowing that no one ever starves in Starvation Land
Usian nationalists might soon be telling each other this story, to feel less hungry…
It feels good to be starving, knowing that someone else is starving more
dark /s
I see that some people try to attribute this to older population and/or Alzheimer, but even by those metrics the countries above are pretty close and wouldn’t justify such a big gap:
As for the reliability of data, it’s from a peer reviewed study by an American university. If they had a way to make the China data look worse, I’m sure they wouldn’t hesitate.
You wouldn’t expect more (or less) primary causes if more secondary causes were reported in multifactorial deaths. I’d imagine the fact that in the US CMS adopted ICD-10 in 2015 and the rapid rise after would make that obvious enough. Unless you believe there’s some pre-COVID etiology for malnutrition that explains the jump I’m not seeing.
wtf is going on in france
Ppl eating shits. We have sole stuff even Americans will have to take a breath to finish thoses meals
I’ve read this over several times, and have come to the conclusion that you are either having a stroke, or a dog wrote this.
You okay?
What’s your dog up to?
“Let them eat cake” moment.
Jokes apart, the children of the rich are obese, the children of the poor are too thin. Both tendencies contribute to malnutrition.
https://globalnutritionreport.org/resources/nutrition-profiles/europe/western-europe/france/
I live in France…
You’re mixing two population averages, so you need a weighted calculation.
Let’s approximate first: France has about 67 million people out of roughly 447 million in the European Union, so ≈15% French and 85% non-French.
We set up:
Overall EU rate = weighted average 1.7=0.15⋅8+0.85⋅x
Solve:
1.7=1.2+0.85x 0.5=0.85x x≈0.59
So, among non-French Europeans, the rate is roughly 0.6 per 100,000.
That’s substantially lower than both the French rate (8) and the EU average (1.7), which makes sense given how high the French figure is relative to the rest. Also this is pretty much what I read for Vietnam in this chart.
thanks France, for ruining our numbers!
Dunno what you’re trying to prove here, apart from “removing an outlier from the data makes the data closer to the average”, which is pretty obvious.
But you can clearly see that the graph shows Europe, not EU, so using your same calculation with the population of Europe, which is 745 million and excluding France, the result is 1.13.
Also I don’t see any indication that OurWorldInData is using an average of countries (which would be stupid). Considering their jobs are statistics, they probably know how to aggregate per population, aka a weighted average.
it says Europe though, not the European Union
if you click the question mark near the Europe statistic, it says it also includes countries like Russia and the UK which mess with the statistic a lot
good point, makes the comparison even worse %-)
WTF is going on in france
They got rid of their monarchs, so there’s noone left to tell them to eat cake
Best anti-capitalist argument.
