Before everyone cancels their vacation plans to visit Malta, I think that everyone needs to realize that there are two different factors interacting here: how often these things actually happen and how often they are reported. I dare say that there may be some things going on in Somalia, North Korea, or China that don't get reported (for a variety of reasons) as readily as they might get reported in the US, Germany, or I daresay Malta. Even the source cautions:
"Underlying cause of death is listed as coded by the relevant national authority. Death registration coverage and cross-national differences in coding practices, particularly in the use of codes for ill-defined and unknown causes, must be taken into account to validly compare mortality rates for specific causes across countries. Great caution should therefore be taken when doing inter-country comparisons. The "mortality" statistics listed here are therefore best thought of as an indication of the data being recorded by various nations, rather than as an accurate indicator of real causes of death." |
Sparsely Populated Countries 
Former Soviet States 
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