Abortion was the leading cause of death worldwide in 2024, according to new data published by Worldometer, which shows there were 45.1 million abortions globally last year.
This surpassed deaths caused by cancer (8.2 million), smoking (5 million), HIV/AIDS (1.7 million), traffic fatalities (1.35 million) and suicide (1.1 million), Breitbart noted, adding that the combined total of all non-abortion deaths was estimated at 62.5 million, so the procedures accounted for just over 42% of all human deaths in 2024.
In the United States, abortion accounts for roughly one-third of all annual deaths. The figure among African Americans reportedly exceeds 60% of total deaths in that community, the news outlet pointed out.
A 2016 study from the Open Journal of Preventive Medicine showed the disparity of black deaths through abortion. The Rev. Clenard Childress Jr., a pastor who described the phenomenon as a form of “black genocide,” has said, “52 percent of all African American pregnancies end in abortion,” Breitbart added. Childress also said abortion “is the most common operation performed on women,” yet “the least regulated medical procedure.”
LifeSiteNews compared abortion’s toll of 45.1 million unborn children in 2024 to Canada’s entire population of about 40.1 million, remarking that every year, the equivalent of an entire country is “killed by abortion.”