World's Deadliest Animals

Number of deaths Killer World's Deadliest Animals - 10 Shark 10 Wolf 100 Lion 100 Elephant 500 Hippopotamus Number of people killed by animals per year 1,000 Crocodile 2,000 Tapeworm 2,500 Ascaris roundworm 10,000 Freshwater snail (schistosomiasis) 10,000 Assassin bug (Chagas disease) 10,000 Tsetse fly (sleeping sickness) 25,000 Dog (rabies) 50,000 Snake 475,000 Human 725,000 Mosquito SOURCES: WHO; crocodile-attack.info; Kasturiratne et al. (doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050218): FAO (webcitation.org/60gpS8SVO); Linnell et al. (webcitation.org/6ORL7DBUO): Packer et al (doi.org/10.1038%2F4369273): Alessandro De Maddalena. All calculations have wide error margins.