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humans · Homo sapiens
killed by alcohol
2.6 million
a year
0.082
a second
7,118
a day
killed by other drugs
600,000
a year
0.019
a second
1,643
a day
method WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol 2024 (2.6M); UNODC World Drug Report for other drugs (~0.6M).
- alcohol kills about four times as many people as all illegal drugs together.source: WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol 2024; UNODC World Drug Report
- overdose deaths in the united states passed 100,000 a year in 2021, mostly fentanyl. they have started to fall.source: CDC WONDER
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how this number is built
- method
- WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol 2024 (2.6M); UNODC World Drug Report for other drugs (~0.6M).
- range
- alcohol 2.4–3.0 million/yr; drugs 0.5–0.7 million/yr
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- attributable-fraction estimates; drug deaths are undercounted where they are criminal.
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