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Taken from a Peter Coffee column on May 3rd,
...Examining more than 100 projects coded by developers in India, Japan, the United States, and "Europe and other," the report tabulated an overall defect rate (errors found in the first year of use per thousand lines of source code) of 3 percent worldwide—that is, three defects per 100,000 lines. Regionally—may I have the envelope, please—India exceeded that average with 3.3 percent, compared with 3 percent for the United States. "Europe and other" did less well, at 5 percent, while Japan did impressively well, at only 0.5 percent...