← on nowLGR-053 · v0.1.0 · model · count (homicide); estimate (conflict) How many people are killed by other humans each year?
humans · Homo sapiens
killed by other humans
460,000
a year
0.015
a second
1,259
a day
killed in armed conflict
200,000
a year
6.34e-3
a second
548
a day
method UNODC Global Study on Homicide (2021 data); conflict deaths from Uppsala/ACLED, annualised.
- about 250,000 people are shot dead a year, a third of them murdered, most of the rest by their own hand. eight in ten murder victims are men. so are most of the killers.source: UNODC Global Study on Homicide 2023; Naghavi et al. 2018
- at least 1,500 executions were recorded last year. china executes thousands and does not say. terrorism killed about eight thousand.source: Amnesty International 2024; Global Terrorism Index 2024
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how this number is built
- method
- UNODC Global Study on Homicide (2021 data); conflict deaths from Uppsala/ACLED, annualised.
- range
- homicide 400,000–500,000/yr; conflict 100,000–300,000/yr
- confidence
- count (homicide); estimate (conflict)
- weakness
- conflict counts lag by years and vary by source by a factor of two.
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