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We are very lucky to live in a country where the risk of drowning is relatively low. Of all of the deaths caused by drowning, 97% occur in the third world and developing nations. That amounts to almost 400,000 deaths annually (according to World Health Organization statistics).

This image, from WorldMapper.org, is a representation of our globe wherein countries are re-sized based on frequency of a set of data. Put simply, in this map, countries with many drowning deaths appear larger than countries that don’t. You can immediately see that the entire United States or European Union could be eclipsed by places like Indonesia, and that the massive continent of Australia (which has had lifeguard programs in place since 1907) looks like an underfed seahorse.


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