Talk:List of sovereign states by homeless population

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I applaud whoever put this page together, but it is not trustworthy or accurate: the statistics have different sources, therefore different methodologies and are showing non-comparable results. Best example is the UK and England - wildly different measures, both cannot be right. Wik idea 19:37, 28 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Without the article stating what definition of homelessness it uses, the results are useless. For example, the definition used by the US to put the figure at 554 000 would if applied to Sweden correspond to "acute homelessness", which covers 5900 people rather than the 34000 people stated in the entry for Sweden. If the definition of homelessness used by Swedish authorities was applied to the US, I have no idea how many would be considered homeless. Sajberhippien (talk) 13:55, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Homeless counts

Right now, this seems to be something of a mess. We don't seem to be doing apples to apples comparisons here. What exactly are we trying to count?

There's at least two possible numbers we can be counting here for "number of homeless people":

Number of homeless people at any particular time - that is to say, the annual count of homeless people. In the US, the latest count put that at 554,000. This is what the US's number is in the chart now, as well as for France.
Number of homeless people in any given year - that is to say, the fraction of people who experience homelessness at any point in a year. This was the number being used for the UK - I'm going to change it over to be the same as for the US and France now, so that it is comparable, but I think it is worth having a discussion here - we can always go to the other numbers

We should also decide whether or not we want to include people in informal housing in the homelessness rate, or put them into a separate category/column. If you count people in informal housing as homeless, many countries in Africa have "homeless" populations of 60% or more.

These numbers should be consistent across countries; we should be counting the same thing regardless of which country we're doing. It doesn't matter which we are counting, but we should use one or the other, stick with it for every country, and note in the lede which number we're looking at here. Titanium Dragon (talk) 21:34, 28 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Inappropriate title

This article should be called "list of people living in inadequate shelters". If you know what homeless means and you know the reality of these countries, you can't take this article seriously. There is no way Norway can have more homeless than Brazil and China more than the USA. Barbar03 (talk) 21:38, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's in the source of the OECD report. They explain in detail what the differences in definition are of homelessness in different countries. I agree that this article should report that too, or at least refer to the fact that the method per country is not the same. Andeosr (talk) 09:49, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There are not 40,000 homeless people in Mexico

There are not 40,000 homeless people in Mexico because every month 144,000 are crossing the border into America. So the homeless population of Mexico has to be ylarger than 144,000.

Based on these numbers we can assume that all of the other countries are under reporting their homeless population’s.

This leads us to the concern that the entire globe is over populating drastically. And that the only conceivable answer is to implement

2 child per family Incentives

And repatriation incentives to latitude and hemisphere of natural orange and repatriation incentives to latitude and hemisphere of natural origin.

Let’s try to get the numbers correct.

America is worth several hundred trillion dollars. When someone crosses the border they have usurped $1 million of American infrastructure government technology and culture

Why don’t we just have an open at Disney World? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.233.102 (talk) 11:25, 7 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

All over the place.

Why is Wales listed in addition to (or separately, depending upon how you look at it) from the UK? If we're going down that road, where's Scotland and NI? This is quite aside from the fact that half the countries in the world are missing. Hanoi Road (talk) 17:15, 18 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The sources

Most of these sources are ridiculous. It includes opinion pieces, articles with no references or only references to other articles on the same website. This wiki article needs to be cleaned up and I'm not sure whether I'll be able to do it by myself, but I'll make a start as soon as possible. When it comes down to statistics, you refer to studies or you don't refer at all. This is really shameful. Andeosr (talk) 09:53, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There is no way that the UK New Zealand, countries like that have a higher homeless rate than the U.S What they’re saying is that they are homeless in the past year rather than what the US stat mostly includes which are unsheltered on a given night homeless. Cyanidethistles (talk) 15:42, 15 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Validity of Data:

I have been using Wikipedia as basic source of information as its a great medium of distribution information around the world. Now, there are number of times i have observed that the data and information provided on Wiki pages are either totally incorrect or misleading, my intention is not blame someone or malign the source rather its a effort to suggest something which can help thing to improve. There are around 54 million wiki pages in total but info they have, needs to be precise and have some kind of validation, now i would like to appreciate the work done by wikipedia throughout the creation of wiki at the same time. The idea of having wikipedia is a great one, but there is a huge potential of improvement, which in turn can generate large amounts of revenues and increase the number of visitors and their trust on this source. People believe wikipedia is just random pages of info, but this platform can be become a very beneficial source as it very very easy to access and provides information in a very concise manner. There lies a responsibility on the editors and contributors to the pages, the info they publish on their behalf, on these pages should be valid and verified. In the end the staff and management of Wiki have responsibility to not only just earn and burn the revenues, profits and salaries but also to reinvest, reinvent and provide the best info which someone can get access to.

Have a good day,

Cheers. 120.21.185.7 (talk) 01:37, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]