Ciekawostka: Kuwait is about 60% male (highest in the world)

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At a global level, men represent both the majority of victims and the majority of perpetrators of homicide. According to the 2023 UNODC Global Study on Homicide, in 2021, at a global level, 81% of homicide victims were men. In 2021, males accounted for most homicide victims in all jurisdictions except in Austria, the Czech Republic, Iceland, Latvia, Norway, Slovenia and Switzerland, where females were slightly more likely to be homicide victims. The global homicide rate was 9.3 per 100,000 males and 2.2 per 100,000 females; and 90% of homicide suspects brought into formal contact with the police were men. According to the most recent data from World Bank Group, the highest rate per 100,000…

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Obesity in the Middle East and North Africa is a notable health issue. Out of the 15 nations with the highest rates of obesity in the world as of 2014, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), five were located in the Middle East and North Africa region. In 2005, the WHO measured that 1.6 billion people were overweight and 400 million were obese. It estimated that by the year 2015, 2.3 billion people will be overweight and 700 million will be obese. The Middle East, including the Arabian Peninsula, Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey, and Iran, and North Africa, are no exception to the worldwide increase in obesity. Subsequently, some call this trend the New World syndrome. The lifestyle…

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In 2023, the United States had 1,833,700 inmates in adult facilities (prisons and jails), at a rate of 542 per 100,000 population. That was the 4th highest rate in the world in 2023. According to the World Prison Population List (11th edition) there were around 10.35 million people in penal institutions worldwide in 2015. The US had 2,173,800 prisoners in adult facilities in 2015. That means the US held 21.0% of the world's prisoners in 2015, even though the US represented only around 4.4 percent of the world's population in 2015. In 2015 the US had the 2nd highest incarceration rate (698), behind the Seychelles rate of 799 per 100,000. Comparing English-speaking developed countries; the in…

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