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lil  ·  3897 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Roads Kill Map

The interactivity of this map was interesting, and I guess one should trust "Pulitzer" writers. However, I found statistics like this just confusing:

    Australia is the poster boy for reforming bad habits. In the mid-1970s, Aussies were among the world’s most reckless drivers, with a death rate of more than 30 per 100,000 in population. But strict enforcement of safe driving laws resulted in an 80 percent decline in road fatalities over the next six decades.
?? how could there be an 80% decline over the next six decades since the 1970s, if there has only been 3.3 decades so far?