I don't understand the intention of this comparison. Does this make anything better? Is this considered surprising? Is anybody relieved now because the next vacation to Europe was about to be cancelled in fear of terror attacks? Is anybody "relieved" because when counting lost human souls Europe is not that badly affected after all (because counting bodies apparently is a thing)? Does this make any of these terror attacks less bad?
Echo chamber fueled extremism is on the rise and affects people worldwide. Whoever has not realized how much terrorism is going on worldwide is advised to step out of their local news filter bubble. Wikipedia is maintaining some meticulous lists on terrorists incidents: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents
For the lazy (Google Translate):
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
In French. The graphic is pretty clear, though. Europe is in blue; Africa is in red.
It makes me wonder:
How can we ever expect to solve the biggest problems when we’re ignoring them?
There are over twice as many people in Africa as Europe, mind.
I can't read it, is Israel included? And if so, are they included under Europe of Africa?
What about Egypt? What percent of the total is Egypt?
This is disgusting propaganda of the highest order created to undermine and lessen the devastating effects mass-migration has caused in France and the rest of W. Europe over the past 10 years and more specifically the past 2. Hey look, our immigration policies unnecessarily led to the gruesome deaths of 80 innocent European people this year but on the bright side, it's much worse down there in Africa! - said the demoralized puppet.
Good points made but the little human-based infographic is just an horrible way to represent data.
Reminds me of a project the NYT did a year ago, The Human Toll of Terror: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/27/world/human-t...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/insider/terror-attacks-vi...
They decided during a "particularly intense spate of attacks back in March" to cover all of the victims as much as possible. This period included the 32 killed in Brussels, but that ended up being the only attack in the West. The rest were in Africa and Asia, and were generally barely covered by the world media.
It took the NYT team, which looked like a couple dozen staffers and reporters, about a third of a year to publish the project. They were only able to find 222 of the 247 known victims -- some of the attacks took place in locales where local officials didn't collect the information themselves. It's a project I use as an example of "data journalism", the kind that's incredibly hard and constly to collect.