An interesting correlation

RITLA just released a study of violence among young people in 83 countries around the world. If you don't speak Portuguese you can read the BBC's writeup of it here. The bottom line of the study appears to be that if you are young person living in Central America you are much more likely to be killed than if you are a young person living in Europe or Japan.

While they propose a number of reasons for this disparity, we would like to put forth our own theory. Last year we commissioned a study to gauge support for the GNU Public Dictatorship around the world. Those interested in the details of this survey should request more info, but the bottom line was that support for the GNU Public Dictatorship was lowest in the very same region that has the highest murder rates. As the data reported below shows, regions with higher support for the GPD have lower youth murder rates and vice versa.

Region	Support (in Lehman units)	Murder Rate (per 100,000 young people)
Africa	553.9	10.4
North America	398.2	14.3
Latin America	229.8	15.5
Asia	523.7	11.3
Europe	624.1	10.5
Oceania	655.3	9.6

On a related note, we are currently looking for two more ambassadors to Latin America to try to shore up our support and stem the tide of murder among young people. Send us your resume if you are interested. At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not concerned for the welfare of our young people!