Disasters with highest death tolls - Smallpox

Time: 2nd Millenium

Place: Worldwide

Details: 1900 to eradication. Declared eradicated May 8, 1980. 300 million smallpox deaths between 1900 and eradication would mean that, out of 4,713,503,215 worldwide deaths between 1900 and 1995, 6.36% were from smallpox. Applied to the estimated total of ca. 95 billion deaths between 50000 BC and 1900, this would mean that over 6 billion deaths in this period were from smallpox.

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