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North/Central America is kind of the outlier running on 100-ish volts. Most of the rest of the world runs on 200-ish[0]. Electricity-related deaths aren't exactly common worldwide. And yes, I can see 100ish causing more fires — given dissipated power scales with current squared, my 2kW tea kettle can't possibly be safe in the US.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country

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To be fair, pages like the one you link only talk about the official standards, which mean very, very little in most of the world.

I wouldn't assume anything about voltage in much of South America / Africa / Asia. You're going to get a frankenstein NEMA-Schuko-Chinese power outlet that will give you some amount of power for some amount of hours in the day, for a definition of 'some' that no one will be able to specify for you with any great precision and that will vary from town to town.

> You're going to get a frankenstein NEMA-Schuko-Chinese power outlet

They are very practical, as they accept any plug

They are also more dangerous, as they don't have a good grip on the plug, and usually don't have shutters.

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