Editing Vatican City (section)

=== Statistical oddities ===
In statistics comparing countries in [[per capita|''per capita'']] or per area metrics, Vatican City is often an [[outlier]] {{Ndash}} these stem from the state's small size and ecclesiastical function.<ref name="The Independent-2014">{{Cite web |date=25 February 2014 |title=Vatican City drinks more wine per person than anywhere else in the world |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vatican-city-drinks-more-wine-per-person-than-anywhere-else-in-the-world-9151475.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180727222225/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vatican-city-drinks-more-wine-per-person-than-anywhere-else-in-the-world-9151475.html |archive-date=27 July 2018 |access-date=27 July 2018 |website=The Independent}}</ref> For example, as most of the roles which would confer citizenship are reserved for men, the gender ratio of Vatican City citizenship is several men per woman.<ref>Mrowińska, Alina. [https://www.worldcrunch.com/dossier-the-next-pope/behind-the-walls-what-it-039-s-like-to-live-inside-the-vatican-for-a-woman/c8s11033/ "Behind The Walls: What It's Like To Live Inside The Vatican, For A Woman"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101202339/https://www.worldcrunch.com/dossier-the-next-pope/behind-the-walls-what-it-039-s-like-to-live-inside-the-vatican-for-a-woman/c8s11033/ |date=1 January 2016 }}, ''Gazeta Wyborcza/Worldcrunch'', 26 February 2013.</ref> Further oddities are petty crimes against tourists, resulting in a very high per-capita crime rate,<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 January 2003 |title=Vatican crime rate 'soars' |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2639777.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190205082725/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2639777.stm |archive-date=5 February 2019 |access-date=6 March 2019 |language=en-GB}}</ref> and the city-state leading the world in per-capita wine consumption due to its [[Sacraments of the Catholic Church|sacramental use]].<ref name="The Independent-2014" /> A jocular illustration of these anomalies is sometimes made by calculating a "popes per km<sup>2</sup>" statistic, which is greater than two because Vatican City is less than half a square kilometre in area.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Miller |first=Anne |last2=Mitchinson |first2=John |date=14 March 2013 |title=QI: some quite interesting facts about Popes |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/qi/9930677/QI-some-quite-interesting-facts-about-Popes.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/qi/9930677/QI-some-quite-interesting-facts-about-Popes.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |access-date=6 March 2019 |work=The Daily Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

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