One in three of these incidents occurred in North America, the paper said, making it the most dangerous place for Chinese. The newspaper did not specify whether it only looked at reports on Chinese citizens or also included local ethnic Chinese.
Some 60 per cent of reported incidents involved some form of violence, the report said. Car accidents remain the single highest reason for casualties, resulting in 80 deaths in 52 reported accidents. In 24 of these accidents, the victims were crossing a street.
While the number of incidents is more than two times higher in North America compared to Asia, the latter accounted for most deaths last year. Last year, 92 were reported, according to the Beijing paper, followed by 23 in Europe and 20 in Oceania. Only 16 deaths were reported in Africa, 65 per cent of which occurred in South Africa.