TIL suicide kills more people per year than homicide and war casualties combined. In 2012 suicide killed 803,900 people, there were 504,587 homicide deaths and 119,463 people died in war.

http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/estimates/en/index1.html



Submitted March 29, 2015 at 11:31PM by LarperPro http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/30pwbx/til_suicide_kills_more_people_per_year_than/