User:Gwern/Threats

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When one considers the multi-trillion dollar cost of Homeland Security and the Iraq War, among other things, I find it helpful to ponder the following statistics. Statistics current as of 2002.

[edit] Threats to life

In the United States:

Killed by
  • cigarette smoking per by year: 430,700
  • obesity: 300,000
  • alcohol abuse: 110,000
  • motor vehicle accident: 43,200
  • guns (non-war): 34,000
  • prescription drugs (accident): 32,000
  • suicides in 1998: 30,575
  • accidental fall: 14,900
  • accidental poisoning: 8,600
  • drowning: 4,000
  • choking on ingested object: 3,000
  • 9/11: 3,000

In other countries:

Killed by
  • Sudan, civil war: 2,000,000
  • Cambodia, Khmer Rouge: 1,700,000
  • Congo, war: 1,700,000
  • Guatemala, army massacres: 200,000
  • Cambodia, US bombings of: 150,000
  • China, farmer suicides: 125,000
  • Japan, atomic bombings: 103,000
  • United Kingdom, obesity: 30,000
  • India, Bhopal incident: 20,000
  • India, snake bite: 10,000
  • Brazil, malaria: 8,000
  • Bosnia, army massacres: 7,000