War death rates lower in Western societies

THE average annual death rate of Australian POWs under the Japanese in World War II was 10.4 per 100 (8,000 deaths out of 22,000 POWs over 3.5 years).

War death rates lower in Western societies

The annual death rate of infants under five years old is 5.8 per 100 in US-occupied Afghanistan and 2.6 per 100 in US-occupied Iraq due to gross coalition violation of the Geneva Conventions for protection of civilians - terror indeed for the parents.

The average annual death rate of western civilians from jihadist violence has been 0.00003 per 100 (past 20 years) and 0.0001 per 100 (last five years).

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