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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remembered the Texas economy lower than it is

https://wisevoter.com/state-rankings/gdp-by-state/

I was thinking they were only at 1.6-1.8 trillion

[–] girlfreddy@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@AngryCommieKender

You wrote about mosquitoes, rape and murder, not GDP.

Those were the data I asked about.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry I got confused about the thread.

https://www.mosquito.org/vector-borne-diseases/

Over 1 million people per year die from mosquitoes world wide.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime

Males were more likely to be murder victims. (78.6%)

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/sexualviolence/fastfact.html

There's the best SA statistics you'll find, but even they admit that the data on the men's side is flawed and incomplete at best.

[–] girlfreddy@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@AngryCommieKender

Thank you for the apology. It's appreciated.

Statistics for rape conclude that 10% of the world's female population are raped, which equates to about 400,000,000 girls and women. Stats on male rape are fairly non-existent (from a PDF here https://www.equalitynow.org/resource/the-worlds-shame-the-global-rape-epidemic/).

That's 400x the amount of people killed by mosquitoes.

edit to correct numbers

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No it isn't. That's 400,000,000 total, not per year.

The total number of humans killed by mosquitos is in the billions. Mosquitoes have killed more of us than anything else including us and war

Oh, and that million+ per year is way down. Before we figured out how to cure malaria it was tens to hundreds of millions of humans per year.

[–] girlfreddy@mastodon.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@AngryCommieKender

It would take 400 years for mosquitoes to kill as many people as rape has affected.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only at today's death rate. Prior to malaria being cured it would have taken 4 years to 40. PS. They've been at it for 250,000 years the death toll isn't even close. You're arguing in bad faith.