Global deaths: This is how COVID-19 compares to other diseases
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/05/h...19-coronavirus/
Terrorism and natural disasters cause very few deaths compared with other causes.

Nearly 150,000 people die each day around the world, according to 2017 data.Cardiovascular diseases are the biggest killer globally.This is how COVID-19 compares to other diseases for number of deaths.

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, the media continues to rattle off statistics at full force.

However, without a frame of reference, numbers such as the death toll can be difficult to interpret. Mortalities attributed to the virus, for example, are often measured in the thousands of people per day globally—but is this number a little or a lot, relative to typical causes of death?

This graphic uses data from Our World in Data to provide context with the total number of worldwide daily deaths. It also outlines how many people who die each day from specific causes.

Worldwide deaths by cause

Nearly 150,000 people die per day worldwide-- excerpt, rest at link above --