Really interesting analysis, thanks for sharing. If one was trying to save more lives this would suggest switching from chicken to beef, but beef is by far the worst for the environment.

relevant PBF comic

From an environmental perspective a bigger issue is that we convert natural wild lands into farms to raise animals for meat. This kills wildlife and reduces biodiversity.

Land use is an important component. Natural forest and grassland gets razed and turned into farms when demand for meat increases. It kills wildlife and biodiversity. Reducing meat consumption s good for land use, and beef in particular produces a lot of methane gas which is bad for climate change.

The other countries have gangs too, but somehow US have way more gun violence. CDC data estimates that at most 11% of all firearm homicides are due to gang activity in the US. See my other recent post for split into homicides vs suicides, but it’s majority homicides.

See the earlier chart for breakdown of gun deaths into suicide vs homicide: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/yhxmqy/what_should_kids_really_be_afraid_of_oc/

Why not?

Following up yesterday's post specifically about Americans, What should kids really be afraid of?, this chart compares against the other OECD member nations with above-median GDP. Only in the US do guns and cars each kill more than twice as many kids as cancer.