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Re:Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead po... by jhgb on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:24AM (#30071000)
If anyone (like me) is looking for a map (which seems to be missing from the article), the per-country data is apparently on https://www.pollution.org.
Re:Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead po... by C_Don7 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:55AM (#30071235)
Re:Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead po... by IiydAbITMvJkqKf on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:19AM (#30071441)
This map is very bad since

1. Most countries have "no data"

2. Those that do show an absolute number instead of a percentage, which makes the data essentially useless.

Re:Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead po... by thriftwy on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:48AM (#30072323)
3. Many countries have this number so large that it sounds like "all of them" (How many children there are in China compared to the 106 mln quoted, and of what age?) and one would expect more granularity at this point. Did they actually test 105 mln Chinese children? Does Serbia even have 900k children in the whole country?
Re:Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead po... by skohan on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:28AM (#30071032)
What's the source of all the lead pollution in central Africa?
Re:Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead po... by luciacoulter on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:04AM (#30071302)
This WHO Africa brief summarises evidence for sources in Africa: https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/200168/9780...
Re:Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead po... by wizardofdos on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:45AM (#30071159)
Unsafe recycling of electronic equipment mainly lead-adic batteries.
Re:Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead po... by yrro on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:38AM (#30071106)
> Saint Lucia: 88,698 Deaths per million

Wow. Next highest is Somalia (3,261 dpm)

Re:Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead po... by skohan on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:42AM (#30071129)
Deaths per pop statistics are often distorted for tiny countries since a few extra deaths can pull the stat by a lot.
Re:Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead po... by sokoloff on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:59AM (#30071265)
While true, the figure above is almost 9% of the deaths. If true, that’s well beyond “a few extra deaths”. (I am somewhat skeptical that it’s a correct figure, or at a minimum if correct, that it carries 5 significant digits of precision.)
Re:Around one-in-three children globally suffer from lead po... by account42 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:38AM (#30072219)
This shows exactly the same stats for China and Taiwan which is unlikely to be correct.