The title as “world’s most dangerous animal” or “deadliest animal on the planet” can, of course, be classified in different ways, but for the sake of facts and logic, we show you the list according to the estimated annual deaths per animal , rather than by the destruction they can cause.
Could you list which are the most dangerous animals in the world? It is likely that one of the first ones that comes to mind is not exactly the first on the list. In fact, if you have thought about the shark, you will remember that it was thanks to the summer success of Steven Spielberg’s film “Jaws” released in June 1975 that caused and inspired a lot of tales, stories and fears related to shark attacks .
And although a shark attack is a very striking event, the truth is that shark attacks only represent a small fraction of the number of humans killed by animals each year: an estimated 1,537,166 in 2015.
Exact numbers are hard to come by, of course, since many developing countries do not have any official records of animal deaths . Only cases where the person arrives at a hospital or when the cause of death has been determined are recorded. And some of these countries are home to some of the most dangerous animals in the world, so there is surely a numerical gap due to hidden statistics where wild animals have killed people.
However, with data from the World Health Organization, the Norwegian Nature Research Institute, National Geographic, the National Science Foundation, the Center for Disease Control and the World Wide Fund for Nature, a estimate of how many people around the world have been killed by animals. All the species in this list have been classified by the total number of people killed for each year (we remember that it is an estimated and not exhaustive selection).
As a result, the most dangerous animal in the world does not have to be the largest or the scariest, but rather the opposite: the smallest . What little pest tops the list?
The world’s deadliest animal is neither a shark nor a human, but don’t underestimate its size. It is responsible for a large number of human deaths.
