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To put things in perspective, Sweden's 2022 homicide rate (according to Wikipedia) is 1.1 per 100k people, which puts it in the same range as Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, and Greece. The US sits at 6.4/100k, with the safest state (Rhodes Island) at 1.5/100k, still above Sweden.

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> To put things in perspective, Sweden's 2022 homicide rate (according to Wikipedia) is 1.1 per 100k people, which puts it in the same range as Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, and Greece. The US sits at 6.4/100k, with the safest state (Rhodes Island) at 1.5/100k, still above Sweden.

At the rate Sweden is going, however, they're going to have a rate double that of Rhode Island by the 2030's and on par with the U.S. by the following decade.

Indeed, extrapolating the current trend indicates they'll have more than one murder per person per year in the mid 22nd century!

That's a lot of matches.

Nation-wide rates can be misleading if the rate in certain areas is way higher.

Especially in places were rural areas have almost non-existent homicide rates

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