[Moltke]

...which gives us a [US] "murder" rate of 4.8 per 100,000 population.

...then the UK murder rate is 4.7 per 100,000 or about 15% higher than the US murder rate.

4.7 is 15% more than 4.8. Must be the 'new math' I hear about so much.

[johnnypeace]

It looks as though Little Ray inadvertently transposed the numbers from “4700 deaths” to 4.7 murders per 100000. When I divide 4700 by the population of Great Britain (62,641,000), I get 7.5 per 100000, which is 56% more than 4.8 per 100000.

I’m not sure how he got 15%.