Looking at the world since 2001, according to WHO & other reports:

• >2,500,000,000 humans living with less than $2 per day (decreasing);
• 50,000,000-70,000,000 deaths per year, of which:
  • >7,000,000 deaths per year due to cancer (increasing)
  • >2,500,000 deaths per year due to HIV/AIDS (variable)
  • >1,000,000 deaths per year due to malaria (variable)
  • >1,000,000 deaths per year due to traffic accidents (variable)
  • >1,000,000 deaths per year due to natural accidents (flood, fire, drownings — variable)
  • >800,000 deaths per year due to suicide
  • >400,000 deaths per year due to nutritional deficiencies (increasing)
  • >150,000 deaths per year due to wars
• and then…
  • <300 deaths total due to mad cow disease (decreasing)
  • ~600 deaths (as of april 2009) due to swine flu (increasing)
  • ~750,000 deaths per year due to nazi holocaust (average between 1933 and 1945)

These numbers were dancing in my head as I was visiting Oświęcim and its surroundings. Hurray for relativity.