How many people have died from a shark attack?

The latest episode over the weekend, when two women were attacked and killed by a shark in the waters of the Red Sea, near Sahl Hasheesh Bay in Egypt. But how many similar episodes are there? To understand this, sportsgaming.win questioned the Global Shark Attack File, a database that reports just under 6 thousand episodes, some dating back to the mid-19th century, in which these predators have targeted humans. This is the trend of the cases reported since 1950.

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Here if you do not see the graph During 2022, the data updated as of June 28, 42 episodes have been recorded. The peak dates back to 2015, when there were 143. Of course, this graph shows all attacks on humans by a shark. Fortunately, only a part ended in the death of the victim. If we focus only on these cases, the picture changes significantly

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Here if you don't see the graph In this last graph the trend is decreasing and there is not that peak at the turn of the decade of this century which is instead seen in the number of attacks. Obviously, the data does not tell us what are the reasons behind this reduction in the most unfortunate outcomes even in the face of an increase in episodes.

To understand which countries are more frequent fatal attacks by sharks, sportsgaming.win has built this graph.

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Here if you don't see the graph With 46 deaths, Australia is the country that, since 2000, has seen the largest number of people killed by sharks. The United States follows with 25 and South Africa with 20. Now, since it is a period that covers 23 years, the Australian figure shows that, in the country that has seen the largest number of these episodes, it is 2 people killed each year by these marine predators.

The 838 deaths of Covid-19 recorded in 2020 in Australia show how Sars-CoV-2 killed sharks 20 times in a year over a period of 23 years. It's Italy ? The latest death dates back to 2006 and concerns a migrant aboard a shipwrecked ship off the coast of Lampedusa. The last attack, however, is in August 2018, when a 24-year-old was bitten by a blue shark in the waters in front of Torino di Sangro (Chieti).