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How many people are killed by lead each year?

humans · Homo sapiens
killed by lead
1.5 million
a year
0.048
a second
4,107
a day
the true number
?

no ledger. one recent estimate is 5.5 million, four times the old one. nobody is sure, and the range is the finding.

method GBD 2019 (~0.9M) and Larsen & Sandahl 2023 (~5.5M cardiovascular); the site shows 1.5M and states the range as the finding.

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