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jamintime t1_ix6zv1c wrote

If you compare the number of deaths per year in the U.S. from 1955 to today the total has roughly doubled. That's because the population has doubled. This graph is pretty meaningless.

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telendria t1_ix7hbcs wrote

how about from 2005?

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jamintime t1_ix8yqc0 wrote

Qatar's population went from 860,000 in 2005 to nearly 3 million today. So you could argue that the number of migrant deaths per capita is actually going down.

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