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This was studied before, and the results are amazing -- it's 266th ranked in terms of disability adjusted life years: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007
by barathr 5y ago
This was studied before, and the results are amazing -- it's 266th ranked in terms of disability adjusted life years:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11127-018-0590-9 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11127-018-0590-...
> If terrorism were a disease, injury, or mental disorder, its DALY would rank in the bottom decile of the 291 diseases and injuries included in the Global Burden of Disease (Murray et al. 2012). Specifically, in Table 7 it is shown that terrorism would rank 266th, i.e., in the bottom 9%. Relative to the diseases that plague mankind, terrorism has limited consequences.
- q1w2 5y agoDeath is not the only societal cost, and the study above only looked at first-order numbers of deaths. Additionally, it's difficult to measure the cost of in-action when responding to an erratic phenomenon like terrorism.