Global Homicide Rate

Did you know that more people die by non-war related homicide (one human killing another), than by all wars and terrorist activity combined?

That's right. Read that again slowly.

Add up all the wars (Ukraine, Gaza, and all others) and all the terror attacks and it does not reach the level of us regular people killing each other.

Globally there are over 1,000 homicides per day. Every single day.

That's it. That's all I got for ya today. No commentary or opinion. Just a news flash. And maybe one request....

In the words of Julie Chen-Moonvez:

Love one another.

🫂

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SomeMichGuy · M

Wow...I accept that as true right now.

After looking at WWII casualties, I'm confident that a new World War would take front seat.

Let's hope we don't get into that.

sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

@SomeMichGuy If you want to see the actual stats, @fakable posted in his comment here a sourced chart showing causes of death in 2019. Very informative. But for homicide, it showed 1140 per day in that year. 😔

As for WWII, my recollection is that somewhere around a thousand people per hour died between 1939 and 1945.

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sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

@SomeMichGuy Check your units in the second to last calculation.

D_d * (1 d/24 hr)
= 1,465 deaths/min ≡ D_m

I think this should be per hour. Which confirms the over a thousand per hour number expressed earlier.

SomeMichGuy · M

@sarabee1995 Yes, I was agreeing with you. lol Thanks!

About 100 ppl every 4 minutes is pretty surprising.

sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

@SomeMichGuy Wargame estimates of a potential WWIII are even worse.

SomeMichGuy · M

@sarabee1995 Yes, that was my point. WWIII, if it IS survived, will be by people who have endured a new ice age and (likely) a dark age.

sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

@SomeMichGuy That scenario is actually fairly unlikely. I know it's all the rage now to assume WWIII will be nuclear and that this concept of a "nuclear winter" would then manifest, but this is very unlikely.

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sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

@SomeMichGuy Sorry, let me clarify what I meant:

I know it's all the rage now to assume WWIII will be GLOBAL nuclear war...

Yes, if WWIII were to break out, NK May lob a few. China would not. The US and NATO would not. And Russia most certainly would not, or if it did would be a limited strike.

Global nuclear war is what I meant to say was very unlikely.

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