🔪 Humans are the Second-Deadliest Animals… for Humans 🧑

What We’re Showing

A chart ranking the top 10 deadliest animals by the number of people killed per year.

Key Takeaways

• Every year, nearly 400,000 homicides take place, making humans the second-deadliest animal for other human beings. And this doesn’t account for all the human-caused accidents that result in fatalities.
• Bears do not make the top 10.
• Mosquitoes, of course, are the reigning champions on the toll they’ve taken on humans. As spreaders of deadly diseases, some estimates say they’re responsible for the deaths of half of all the humans that have ever lived.