Memes

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!

Edit: somewhere in this thread someone from France gives a perfectly good reason and connects the high starvation rate to assisted suicide. Which shines it's light on another problem but very well explains and justifies the "starvation rate" - making this graph/comparison even more absurd.