[OC] Qatar's Migrant Deaths During FIFA World Cup Stadium ConstructionSubmitted by Metalytiq t3_z05rto in dataisbeautiful
MachiavelliSJ t1_ix45hgt wrote
Reply to comment by Deja-Vuz in [OC] Qatar's Migrant Deaths During FIFA World Cup Stadium Construction by Metalytiq
4700 Americans died doing construction last year. This isnt even construction deaths, this is just deaths.
Obviously, there are more people in the US than in Qatar, but this graph doesnt include population…because if it did it would show that population has grown faster than deaths in that time period, which would counter whatever narrative they’re trying to push.
Edit: US had about 1000 construction deaths, not 4700
schefar t1_ix46t7i wrote
Exactly. Waaay too many graphs about the subject lately in this sub. Which makes me feel suspicious.
Deja-Vuz t1_ix4cxyb wrote
Do you think it's propaganda against Qatar?
asdftom t1_ix4y9hw wrote
I think people see that there are great problems with the working conditions and such in Qatar and then accept that number of deaths which everyone else is repeating, without really thinking about what a normal number would be.
Deja-Vuz t1_ix51jpx wrote
Yeah normal people will believe in a lot of things when it's put out on graph charts
youthofoldage t1_ix46ixw wrote
I think that 4700 number is total work-related deaths. Construction deaths were just over 1000, which was still surprising high to me. But that’s for every construction job in America! I can’t imagine choosing any 10 construction sites in the US and finding more than a dozen deaths among them. SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles is a good comparison. Two men died on the job there, and that was considered scandalous.
MachiavelliSJ t1_ix47js4 wrote
Oh, you’re right
DocPeacock t1_ix550dm wrote
The US population is about 150x times larger and foreign workers are 88 percent of qatars population.
TheBlazingFire123 t1_ix469bm wrote
America has over 100x more people than qatar
MachiavelliSJ t1_ix47rpw wrote
My point is that the number is not that meaningful when it’s not put as percentage of population
Ar4iii t1_ix4amf7 wrote
The graph show total number of deaths from any reason. It would be hard to say how many of those are related to construction and almost impossible to asses how many can be classified as work related.
Still there are lot of reports say that most workers especially in construction do work in bad conditions, very high temperatures, high humidity, low quality water and bad accommodation and medical services. Personal safety and well being of the workers doesn't seem like priority, so it is obvious that mortality rate is much higher that that in US. It is also worth to note that bad working conditions can lead to developing many illnesses including ones that can lead to premature death weeks, months and even years after those immigrants leave the country and those would not be covered by this statistics at all.
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