International Rape Scale... aka IRS.
Coincidence?

One other "no data" country: West Sahara.

OP, is this map very different from others, like from the WHO and such?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not surprised at all (and I'm a liberal). Also, I need to learn more geography. What is that little green country under china.... looking it up now

Vietnam and Thailand.

Oh, you meant Bhutan!

Common denominators I see on this map:

Poverty, high population density.

I'm keeping religion out, but you'd be blind not to see it. Don't flame me.

Other notables:

Green countries in Africa:
Namibia and Tunesia.
Yellow or light green: Gambia and Rwanda (really?!)

Dark Red in the South Pacific:
Solomon Islands

Red in Europe:
Serbia, Kosovo, Albania,
and further north: Latvia (why?!)

Red in the Americas and Caribbean:
Jamaica, Haiti, Honduras

Orange in the Americas:
Mexico, El Salvador, Belize, Bolivia

Dark Green Beacon of Asia:
Bhutan

Light Green in East Asia:
Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, South Korea, Japan, Papua New Guinea

Red/Orange in Asia:
Mongolia, everything South of Kazakhstan (which is green), everything south of China (yellow), except as mentioned above.

No data from:
South Sudan, North Korea

Interesting how Germany is the lightest in Western Europe.

Anonymous wrote:I'm not surprised at all (and I'm a liberal). Also, I need to learn more geography. What is that little green country under china.... looking it up now

Vietnam and Thailand.

Anonymous wrote:Are these accurate? If so the people on this board won't like it since it's mostly african, middle east, central america have the highest rates. What a surprise.

Colonization was such a success!!!!

I'm not surprised at all (and I'm a liberal). Also, I need to learn more geography. What is that little green country under china.... looking it up now

Are these accurate? If so the people on this board won't like it since it's mostly african, middle east, central america have the highest rates. What a surprise.

I still can't read a map.

Anonymous wrote:Dark Green = Rape is virtually non existent (0/100,000 population reported).
Green = Rape is rare (1-10/100,000 population reported ).
Yellow = Rape is common (11-30/100,000 population reported).
Red = Rape regularly occurs (31-60/100,000 population reported).
Dark Red = Rape is the norm (>60/100,000 population reported).

Actual criminal complaints or self-reported via individual survey? If the former, these numbers are too low.

Dark Green = Rape is virtually non existent (0/100,000 population reported).
Green = Rape is rare (1-10/100,000 population reported ).
Yellow = Rape is common (11-30/100,000 population reported).
Red = Rape regularly occurs (31-60/100,000 population reported).
Dark Red = Rape is the norm (>60/100,000 population reported).

Any place where there is even 1, is too much.

What exactly is this measuring?

This map is dated (from 2011) since Sweden is still green.