Animals that kill the most humans — the full ranked list
The complete ranking of animals that kill the most humans, in order, with what the ranking counts and how firm the figures behind it are. Free reference, no sign-up — and the guessing game that plays the same list.
Human deaths a year. The order is not what anyone expects: the top of this list is an insect, second place is us, and the famous predators barely register.
The figures behind this ranking move over time, so the order is right for now rather than fixed.
100 entries, in order.
- Mosquito
- Human
- Snake
- Dog
- Freshwater snail
- Assassin bug
- Tsetse fly
- Roundworm
- Tapeworm
- Crocodile
- Hippopotamus
- Elephant
- Lion
- Bee
- Wasp
- Scorpion
- Jellyfish
- Deer
- Cow
- Ant
- Buffalo
- Leopard
- Tiger
- Shark
- Wolf
- Horse
- Bear
- Spider
- Cone snail
- Box jellyfish
- Black mamba
- Saw-scaled viper
- Russell's viper
- Indian cobra
- Common krait
- Rattlesnake
- Inland taipan
- Fer-de-lance
- Puff adder
- King cobra
- Sandfly
- Blackfly
- Deer tick
- Rat
- Bat
- Cassowary
- Komodo dragon
- Stonefish
- Pufferfish
- Stingray
- Blue-ringed octopus
- Portuguese man o' war
- Sea snake
- Piranha
- Hyena
- Cougar
- Polar bear
- Wild boar
- Moose
- Bison
- Chimpanzee
- Monkey
- Goat
- Pig
- Sheep
- Coral snake
- Blackleg tick
- Anopheles mosquito
- Botfly
- Screwworm fly
- Hookworm
- Schistosome
- Liver fluke
- Amoeba
- Blowfly
- Africanised honey bee
- Cape cobra
- Boomslang
- Bullet ant
- Deathstalker scorpion
- Brazilian wandering spider
- Funnel-web spider
- Black widow
- Brown recluse
- Irukandji jellyfish
- Coastal taipan
- Eastern brown snake
- Tiger snake
- Death adder
- Bushmaster
- Gaboon viper
- Malayan pit viper
- Hump-nosed viper
- Yellow scorpion
- Indian red scorpion
- Six-eyed sand spider
- Mouse spider
- Redback spider
- Giant centipede
- Africanised wasp
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