300,000,000/1 shark attackĪround 40 people are killed every year from shark attacks, with the numbers increasing as more people take holidays on coasts where sharks live.
Here the Daily Mirror looks at some other causes of death -and just what the odds are of your meeting your Maker in that way. The study was an attempt to persuade the public that nuclear power was safe, and that there were plenty of other things that were statistically more lethal than a neighbourhood reactor.Īfter much consideration, the men in white coats calculated that that one member of the public would be killed by an asteroid every 7,000 years. Papers released from secret government archives this week revealed that in 1980 government scientists were told to calculate the exact chances of a Brit being killed by a falling asteroid. Death may be the only certainty in life - but how it comes about is anything but certain.
