Teribus, you say, "There was no cross-check made to filter out duplication of data from surveyors talking to different members of the same family about deaths within that family."

Why would a surveyor inventory members of the same family? I believe John Hopkins university to be a qualified and objective source of information.

You, on the other hand, prefer to quote Vancouver University, "- "In general the world is a much safer place now than at any time since the end of the second world war" - Findings of a UN Study conducted by Vancouver University and Uppsala University, Sweden.

Vancouver University is not even accredited. The degrees held by these so-called 'learned persons' are worthless.

Andrew Mack (from UBC), on the other hand, is a credible source but, "...you're citing a piece of research that is based on data collected before the uprising in Fallujah, and before the onset of the current civil war in Iraq and its concommitant attraction of every out of town jihadist from here to Margate? And before the resurgance of Taliban violence in Afghanistan." = Chocolate soldier

You are grasping at straws.