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How many people are killed by animals each year?

humans · Homo sapiens
killed by animals
1 million
a year
0.032
a second
2,738
a day
killed by other humans, for scale
460,000
a year
0.015
a second
1,259
a day

method WHO and GBD 2019: malaria + dengue + other vector-borne (mosquito ~700k), snakebite, rabies, schistosomiasis, Chagas, leishmaniasis, large animals from incident databases.

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