Keith Moore
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46 appearances
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1 series
first heard Sep 2014
last heard Jan 2015
Keith Moore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So we looked at a similar-sounding statistic about a year ago, the claim that the world's richest 85 people have as much wealth as the poorest half of the world put together.
That's 3.5 billion people.
The claim was circulated by Oxfam, and their underlying data came from a report published by Credit Suisse.
No, we don't, because the BBC Trail is making a different claim.
Let's hear it again.
So while the original claim was that the richest 85 people have more money than the poorest half of the world, this new claim is that the richest 85 people have as much money as everyone else put together.
Well, global wealth is about $263 trillion.
Oxfam reckoned that the richest 85 people had $1.7 trillion between them.
That still leaves about $261 trillion for the rest of us.
So the BBC Trail's mangled statistic is wrong by a factor of more than 100.
So, Keith, what have you found out?
The first thing to mention is Mexico's murder rate of 21.5 murders per 100,000 people.
That's much higher than the US at 4.7 per 100,000 and also every country in Europe.
However, it is still behind 20 other countries and way behind Honduras, which has a murder rate of 90 per 100,000.
I spoke to Carlos Villalta, who is a visiting fellow at the Center for U.S.
Mexican Studies in the University of California in San Diego.
And he told me that when a murder suspect had been arrested and was in court, the chance they would actually go to jail was very high.
Well, according to statistics released by Mexico's National Institute of Statistics, that is in fact correct.
They formulate the rate by combining two sets of figures –
Judicial statistics for the number of people who have been convicted of murder and health statistics for the number of people that have died a violent death which have then been confirmed by a doctor as homicide.
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