Picking and choosing

I wonder if the situation is reversed in "Stand Still Stay Silent" -
Iceland is the most populous nation at 190,600, while Danes are just 12,400 folk isolated on Bornholm.

http://sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=66

@Epi Yes, this comic is good and relevant. Read it, y'all.

Once again Iceland has amazing facial expressions.

Yet again, Denmark has been spurned as the best Nordic.
First Happiness, now safety. And if not being the happiest made him depressed...
Logically, not being safe would turn him into an Anarcho-Monarchy.

The factors used to compile this report include: ... Military expenditures as a percentage of GDP.

In other words, worthless list (or maybe, not the list is worthless, but the name is misleading)

@szopen Would you happen to have a link to the list in question?

Canada is ranked 6th but has a higher population then the countries ranked 1 - 5.
Japan is ranked 9th but has a higher population then the countries ranked 1 - 8.

Behold the true titans of per capita safety.

@Kummerspeck

Thanks for that.

By the way, USA is 128th and falling. Not gloating or mocking; just saying you folks have some work to do. Get to it!
Also, please quickly let go of the fantasy that electing a new authoritarian tyrant that may or not be any better than the old authoritarian tyrant, will magically fix nation-wide systemic problems.

@Hinoron : While I am not exactly proud that the US is competing for the "Its not that bad" participation trophy, some of the countries that rank ahead of the US do lead me believe that these rankings should be taken with a grain of salt. The US is definitely safer then South Africa, Brazil, Honduras and Guatemala, just to name a few.

Israel is also ranked bellow Mali and Venezuela.

I agree that there is still a lot of work to do though.

@Kummerspeck I would like to see the criteria used. Someone else said that one of them was the amount spent of national defense as a percentage of GDP, and good god I don’t think ANYBODY outside of a few brutal African dictatorships beats the United States in that category!

@TuxedoCartman "There are some commonalities among the safest countries in the world, such as the their levels of wealth, social welfare, and education. Additionally, these countries have effective criminal justice systems, and the governments maintain very healthy relationships with their citizens."

Not sure how true or how accurate the date is, but that's more or less their explication on how they judged the list.

http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/safest-countries-in-the-world/

Dear tourists, can you please stop trying to kill yourselves with our nature.
With love and concern,
- Norway

Second comment on this, but here is the list for anyone curious were their own country has scored this year!

http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/safest-countries-in-the-world/

YOU ARE dumb
NORWAY #1
SWEDEN #3
DENMARK #7
ICELAND #18
FINLAND #71 BECAUSE THEY RIDE SLEDS ON THE ROOF SRL? AND SAYS PERKELE AND JUMP FROM THE ROOF AND I TO A BUSH AND BURN TO ASH IN SAUNAS AND FREEZE TO DEATH BY GOING OUTSIDE WITH ONLY SUMMER KLOTHES!

Denmark's facial expressions get better with each successive panel XD

When they made up that list, did they take active volcanoes into account?