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I'm sorry. I'm overly tired and I've had a really shit day.
No worries mate, I'm not in the best mood myself.
I mean overall you have a point of course, in the end the 'per 100k' numbers will be the interesting ones, and long-term comparisons of absolute numbers will start to be a little unfair to larger countries. E.g. when the US really takes off.
It's just that, to use a pretty crap comparison, in most places we're looking at the rate at which some broken oil platform is dumping oil into the ocean, and we care about minimising it and containing it in one spot - it's less relevant how large the ocean is overall at this point, and it would only serve to downplay the problem.
SwissChap
I'm sorry. I'm overly tired and I've had a really shit day.
What you're saying is right..but there's reasons for using rates sensibly. I can tell you do numbers, so you probably (hahahaha stats) know why rates are used and you probably know it's about time rates were/are used in China and that they should take into account the age population so you can say:
In China 5.2 deaths per 100,000 in the 80 year olds and over. Compared to 7 in Italian over 80s.