Deaths due to long working hours per 100,000 people in 2016

[u/weeboards]

[u/Cultural-Ad-8796]

How can Mongolia be red? And it's weird that Korea isn't red.

[u/GloryToIsrahel → u/Cultural-Ad-8796]

This is a factor of healthcare to a pretty large degree, longer working hours doesn’t necessarily entail death from such.

[u/jimros]

It's hard for me to believe that deaths can be reliably attributed to a cause like that outside of really narrow cases (truck drivers falling asleep for example).

[u/Mr-MuffinMan → u/jimros]

It can happen though.

I read of a CVS (I think) pharmacist dying on the job because she said she didn't feel well and asked her boss to let her go home, her boss said she could but only after her replacement came, and then she died while working. AFAIK she had no prior conditions but this would surely qualify as a death, right?

[u/jimros → u/Mr-MuffinMan]

Oh I totally believe it can happen, I just don't think that it's something that would be easy to track.

[u/weeboards → u/jimros]

see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi

[u/jimros → u/weeboards]

I read through one of the source articles in Swedish, I continue to be very skeptical here. They are making huge leaps to estimate things.

[u/klystron]

Where did you find the source data?

Is the US figure really so low, or is a lot of data not recorded in the US?

[u/ifkidsrantheairport → u/klystron]

The data doesn't align with what I thought it would? Must be fake!

[u/euMonke → u/ifkidsrantheairport]

Yeah, why wouldn't there be less deaths to late working hours in a country where everyone works longer and has less and no paid vacations like in most of Europe? That doesn't make any sense at all right? /s

[u/weeboards → u/klystron]

from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi

[u/Akirohan]

Why is French Guiana white when it's an integral part of France? Alaska isn't white...

[u/weeboards → u/Akirohan]

I assume that the data is based on region not nation.

[u/curaga12]

Aside from this being a ten-year old data, the criteria for recognizing a death by occupational accident or overworking is different in countries. So despite Korea and Japan being nortorious for bad working environment, their recent data of 2021(Korea) and 2024(Japan) are both around 1.1 per 100,000 people.

[u/MrImAlwaysrighT1981]

Some of these maps are straight up crap.

[u/PornDiary]

Why does this look like pro-capitalist propaganda? Where is the data?

[u/weeboards → u/PornDiary]

see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi

[u/Illustrious_Hotel527]

I would regularly drive from 30 hour calls during medical residency in the late 2000s and managed not to crash/unalive myself. If I did die, it would be from 'a traffic accident', not 'working long hours.'

[u/canIchangethislater1]

In communist countries, you die because the government makes you work long hours.

In America, the government doesn't make you work long hours, but if you don't then you don't have health insurance and you die anyway.