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by jsnell 1658 days ago
> Not saying it’s the reason, but Sweden has higher urbanization than its neighbors.

The urbanization % for the four countries are: 82.9%, 87.9%, 85.5%, and 88.1%. Which one of those do you think is Sweden? Do you think it's at all plausible that such small differences could account for an order of magnitude more deaths?

> The country also has more people who don’t speak the native language

What are the numbers, and why would that be relevant?