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<h4><span class="mw-headline" id="Consequences_of_procreation">Consequences
of procreation</span></h4>
<p>Benatar cites statistics showing where the creation of people
leads. It is estimated that:
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<li>more than fifteen million people are thought to have died from
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_disaster"
title="Natural disaster">natural disasters</a> in the last
1,000 years,</li>
<li>approximately 20,000 people die every day from <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation"
title="Starvation">hunger</a>,</li>
<li>an estimated 840 million people suffer from hunger and <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malnutrition"
title="Malnutrition">malnutrition</a>,</li>
<li>between 541 and 1912, it is estimated that over 102 million
people succumbed to <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)"
title="Plague (disease)">plague</a>,</li>
<li>the 1918 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu"
title="Spanish flu">influenza epidemic</a> killed 50 million
people,</li>
<li>nearly 11 million people die every year from <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_disease"
class="mw-redirect" title="Infectious disease">infectious
diseases</a>,</li>
<li>malignant neoplasms take more than a further 7 million lives
each year,</li>
<li>approximately 3.5 million people die every year in accidents,</li>
<li>approximately 56.5 million people died in 2001, that is more
than 107 people per minute,</li>
<li>before the twentieth century over 133 million people were
killed in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_murder"
title="Mass murder">mass killings</a>,</li>
<li>in the first 88 years of the twentieth century 170 million
(and possibly as many as 360 million) people were shot, beaten,
tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to
death; buried alive, drowned, hanged, bombed, or killed in any
other of the myriad ways governments have inflicted death on
unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners,</li>
<li>there were 1.6 million conflict-related deaths in the
sixteenth century, 6.1 million in the seventeenth century,
7 million in the eighteenth, 19.4 million in the nineteenth, and
109.7 million in the twentieth,</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War" title="War">war</a>-related
injuries led to 310,000 deaths in 2000,</li>
<li>about 40 million children are <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse" title="Child
abuse">maltreated</a> each year,</li>
<li>more than 100 million currently living women and girls have
been subjected to <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation"
title="Female genital mutilation">genital cutting</a>,</li>
<li>815,000 people are thought to have committed suicide in 2000<sup
id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism#cite_note-48">[48]</a></sup>
(currently, it is estimated that someone commits suicide every
40 seconds, more than 800,000 people per year).<sup
id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism#cite_note-49">[49]</a></sup></li>
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<h4><span class="reference-text">D. Benatar, <i>Why it is Better
Never to Come Into Existence</i>, <i>American Philosophical
Quarterly</i>, 1997, volume 34, number 3</span></h4>
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