Traffic: Four times as lethal as war.

[Guest Jobber of the Week]

WHO: Traffic Is Four Times as Lethal as War

 

GENEVA (Reuters) - Traffic kills four times as many people as wars and far more people commit suicide than are murdered, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday.

 

In two reports on injuries, both accidental and deliberate, the United Nations (news - web sites) agency said they killed more than five million people in 2000, one tenth of the global death toll.

 

Nearly 90 percent of injury-related deaths took place in poorer countries.

 

Road deaths, totaling 1.26 million, claimed the highest number of victims, followed by suicide at 815,000 and interpersonal violence at 520,000.

 

Wars and conflict ranked sixth -- between poisoning and falls -- with 310,000 deaths.

 

WHO said age, sex, geographical region and income level all played a part in the distribution and incidence of fatal injuries.

 

Such fatalities were twice as prevalent among men as women, the reports said. Three times as many men, for example, died in road traffic accidents as women. And men were also three times as likely to be murdered.

 

Death rates from road accidents, burns and drowning were particularly high in Africa and Asia, and homicides were three times as frequent as suicides in Africa and the Americas.

 

But in Europe and southeast Asia suicide rates were more than double murder rates.

 

Seatbelts in our time?

[Guest DrTom]

I'm not surprised by any of those results, really.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

I guess this means we need more wars or something...

[Guest cynicalprofit]

Well more people drive then go to war. And war is mostly men aged 18+(but not entirely but the vast majority)

[Guest phoenixrising]

WHO: Traffic Is Four Times as Lethal as War

 

GENEVA (Reuters) - Traffic kills four times as many people as wars and far more people commit suicide than are murdered, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday.

 

In two reports on injuries, both accidental and deliberate, the United Nations (news - web sites) agency said they killed more than five million people in 2000, one tenth of the global death toll.

 

Nearly 90 percent of injury-related deaths took place in poorer countries.

 

Road deaths, totaling 1.26 million, claimed the highest number of victims, followed by suicide at 815,000 and interpersonal violence at 520,000.

 

Wars and conflict ranked sixth -- between poisoning and falls -- with 310,000 deaths.

 

WHO said age, sex, geographical region and income level all played a part in the distribution and incidence of fatal injuries.

 

Such fatalities were twice as prevalent among men as women, the reports said. Three times as many men, for example, died in road traffic accidents as women. And men were also three times as likely to be murdered.

 

Death rates from road accidents, burns and drowning were particularly high in Africa and Asia, and homicides were three times as frequent as suicides in Africa and the Americas.

 

But in Europe and southeast Asia suicide rates were more than double murder rates.

In other news, the sky is blue.

[Guest Some Guy]

^^^^^

 

I was thinking the same thing.

 

WHO said age, sex, geographical region and income level all played a part in the distribution and incidence of fatal injuries.

 

Where's Marxism when you need it. If only the greedy Americans would give a little to poorer countries then deaths would be reduced. If we weren't so damned greedy we could save lives![/sarcasm]