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South Africa has as many murders as all the blue together (infosec.pub)
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[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago

For example, using absolute numbers from Wikipedia...
South Africa: 27,272
Haiti + Philippines + Ecuador: 28,509

That map would look very different.

You're right that using absolute numbers in the first place is bad practice.