Black Americans Are 12 Times More Likely To Be Murdered Than In Other Developed Countries
The tragic events that unfolded Wednesday evening at the historic Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina served as yet another reminder that race relations in America are rapidly deteriorating.
Although it might be fair to say that this week's church massacre is a separate and distinct event that can be better understood as an act of domestic terrorism or as a hate crime than as another example of the marginalization of African Americans, we would be remiss if we didn't mention it in the context of Baltimore, Ferguson, and the deaths of Eric Garner and Walter Scott.
Indeed, Wednesday's shooting and the subsequent arrest of a white male suspect who appears to have sympathized with White Supremacist ideologies will likely lead to still more scrutiny on what certainly appears to be a widening racial divide in America.
In this context, we bring you the following graphic which shows that, among countries with relatively high Human Development Index scores (which measure social welfare and standard of living), the number of African Americans killed per 100,000 people in the US each year is around 12 times the average for all people in developed countries.
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Extending on an analysis by the academic Kieran Healy, I calculated the rate of U.S. homicide deaths by racial group, based on the CDC WONDER data.3 From 2010 through 2012, the annual rate of homicide deaths among non-Hispanic white Americans was 2.5 per 100,000 persons, meaning that about one in every 40,000 white Americans is a homicide victim each year. By comparison, the rate of homicide deaths among non-Hispanic black Americans is 19.4 per 100,000 persons, or about 1 in 5,000 people per year.
Black Americans are almost eight times as likely as white ones to be homicide victims, in other words.
So for white Americans, the homicide death rate is not so much of an outlier. It’s only modestly higher than in Finland, Belgium or Greece, for instance, and lower than in Chile or Latvia.
But there’s no other highly industrialized country with a homicide death rate similar to the one black Americans experience. Their homicide death rate, 19.4 per 100,000 persons, is about 12 times higher than the average rate among all people in other developed countries.
Instead, you’d have to look toward developing countries such as Mexico (22.0), Brazil (23.6), Nigeria (20.0), Rwanda (23.1) or Myanmar (15.2) to find a comparable rate.
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America, you now have one less African American male to deal with. I'm moving with my son out of the country.
Murder rate for Blacks has nothing to do with racism. They are doing their selves in.
why not even 1 African country on the list?
No African representation. Simple, there are no high human development countries in Africa which is what the study measured.
NO development, NO crimes!! yeah! GOOD. very good.
Cain kill Abel. 50% of rate crimes..
We are going well with 2/15 %.
Headline grammar fail.
I'm afraid that presenting this stat in isolation is misleading. If a black person in the U.S. is 12 times more likely to be murdered than other people in developed countries, isn't that really because their neighbors, other black people, are roughly twelve times more likely to COMMIT a murder? Rare anomalies like the currently featured racist nut aside, almost all black people who are murdered are victims of other black people. Honesty requires full information, not cherry-picked 'half stories'.
ok @GNBurns, we welcome your stance but I`m ashamed you are as blind to this day that u simply cannot read between the lines. #whokilledtrayvonmartin and what did the jury say? time will tell.
This is not a "stance". It is a fact. A random black person in the U.S. is about 7 times more likely to commit a gun homicide than a random white person is, and that's even counting hispanics as white.
Yes, and they are almost certain to be murdered by OTHER Black Americans.