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Not to much surprising or interesting. Healthy and safety have improved and deaths have dropped correspondingly. It would be more interesting to know what's mo

Not to much surprising or interesting. Healthy and safety have improved and deaths have dropped correspondingly. It would be more interesting to know what's more likely to kill you today than in the 70s. Violent crime, terrorism, adventure sports?

ascorbic 9y ago
Certainly not terrorism. The 70s were the height of the Troubles.
eikenberry 9y ago
Assuming their numbers are anything like the US, then definitely not violent crime. It has declined significantly since the 70s. http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
rflrob 9y ago
I can’t find any super up-to-date info on the UK murder rate, but extrapolating trends from the early 2010s, it seems to be about the same as the 70s [1]. Deaths by Terrorism in the UK are way down [2], though if you care whether the people likely to kill you are Irish or Islamist, I suppose that’s you’re prerogative. No idea where to find data on adventure sports... [1] https://mises.org/blog/gun-control-fails-what-happened-england-ireland-and-canada https://mises.org/blog/gun-control-fails-what-happened-engla... [2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/750eak/terrorism_deaths_by_year_in_the_uk/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/com...
- jwilk 9y ago
  Non-AMP link for [2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/750eak/terrorism_deaths_by_year_in_the_uk/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/750eak/terroris...
- icebraining 9y ago
  Re: terrorism, it's a trend over the whole Western Europe: http://www.datagraver.com/thumbs/1300x1300r/2016-07/we-terrorism-1970-2015final.png http://www.datagraver.com/thumbs/1300x1300r/2016-07/we-terro... The number of people killed in 2015 used to be normal.
  - jwilk 9y ago
    The two graphs merged: https://i.imgur.com/hzQ8NgW.png https://i.imgur.com/hzQ8NgW.png
ZeroGravitas 9y ago
Diseases of old age that people get more because they didn't die young from the causes in the article presumably.
- loeg 9y ago
  Dementia, cancer.
janekm 9y ago
Walking down stairs while looking at phone screens has overtaken walking down stairs reading broadsheets (I only partially jest, stairs do feature very highly in actuary tables: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/790609.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/790609.stm , more than 1000 per year in the U.K.).

ascorbic 9y ago

Certainly not terrorism. The 70s were the height of the Troubles.

eikenberry 9y ago

Assuming their numbers are anything like the US, then definitely not violent crime. It has declined significantly since the 70s. http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

rflrob 9y ago

I can’t find any super up-to-date info on the UK murder rate, but extrapolating trends from the early 2010s, it seems to be about the same as the 70s [1]. Deaths by Terrorism in the UK are way down [2], though if you care whether the people likely to kill you are Irish or Islamist, I suppose that’s you’re prerogative. No idea where to find data on adventure sports... [1] https://mises.org/blog/gun-control-fails-what-happened-england-ireland-and-canada https://mises.org/blog/gun-control-fails-what-happened-engla... [2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/750eak/terrorism_deaths_by_year_in_the_uk/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/com...

jwilk 9y ago
Non-AMP link for [2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/750eak/terrorism_deaths_by_year_in_the_uk/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/750eak/terroris...
icebraining 9y ago
Re: terrorism, it's a trend over the whole Western Europe: http://www.datagraver.com/thumbs/1300x1300r/2016-07/we-terrorism-1970-2015final.png http://www.datagraver.com/thumbs/1300x1300r/2016-07/we-terro... The number of people killed in 2015 used to be normal.
- jwilk 9y ago
  The two graphs merged: https://i.imgur.com/hzQ8NgW.png https://i.imgur.com/hzQ8NgW.png

ZeroGravitas 9y ago

Diseases of old age that people get more because they didn't die young from the causes in the article presumably.

loeg 9y ago
Dementia, cancer.

janekm 9y ago

Walking down stairs while looking at phone screens has overtaken walking down stairs reading broadsheets (I only partially jest, stairs do feature very highly in actuary tables: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/790609.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/790609.stm , more than 1000 per year in the U.K.).