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the deadliest animals · people killed a year, by animal
mosquito 700,000 · human 460,000 · snake 100,000 · dog 59,000 · sandfly 25,000 · freshwater snail 12,000 · assassin bug 10,000 · scorpion 3,000 · crocodile 1,000 · hippo 500 · elephant 500 · lion 200 · wolf 10 · shark 10.
method as the animals channel; the human figure is UNODC homicide.
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or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
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how this number is built
- method
- as the animals channel; the human figure is UNODC homicide.
- range
- n/a
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- the small counts (wolf, shark, lion) vary year to year by a factor of two.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-146 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0