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29 Jul 2024 18:18:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Statistics  
From: Invisible
Date: 23 Jun 2011 10:17:30
Message: <4e034afa@news.povray.org>
On 23/06/2011 03:02 PM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 23/06/2011 14:29, Invisible a écrit :
>> Number of people killed by bird flu: 303 world-wide in total.
>> Number of people killed by SARS: 8,273 world-wide in total.
>> Number of people killed by cars: 43,000 *per year* in the USA alone.
>>
>> How about we all go get some frigging perspective here? :-P
>
> We need the number about the people killed by serial killers.
>
> Should they get offered a car or many ?
>
> What about the number of killed people in aircraft per year ?

Wolfram Alpha lacks data for air traffic deaths.

Apparently a 2008 estimate suggests that 11.15 million murders are 
committed per year in the USA. (Emphasis *estimate*.)

I would imagine the statistics for /serial/ killers are much smaller.


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