Dodgy Statistics

[drplokta]

The Economist, who should know better, present as a problem here the statistics that 75% of deaths from non-communicable diseases, and 80% of premature deaths, occur in developing countries. But the population of the OECD countries plus Russia is only about 1.4 billion, so 80% of the world's population live in developing countries (unless they're

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[purplecthulhu]

The people who read the Economist probably don't want to be reminded that just by being able to read it they are in a tiny privileged minority.