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humans · Homo sapiens
died from pesticide poisoning
11,000
a year
3.49e-4
a second
30
a day
poisoned, survived
385 million
a year
12.2
a second
1.1 million
a day
method Boedeker et al. 2020: unintentional acute poisoning deaths.
- most are farmworkers in low and middle income countries.source: Boedeker et al. 2020
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how this number is built
- method
- Boedeker et al. 2020: unintentional acute poisoning deaths.
- range
- ~11,000/yr; wide CI
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- excludes chronic disease and self-poisoning (110,000–168,000/yr, Mew et al. 2017), which lives here and not on the front door, handled with care.
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- data
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