| Activity |
Period |
Deaths |
|
|
|
|
|
Travel:
deaths per billion kilometres travelled |
| Air |
|
0.23 |
| Bus or coach |
|
0.45 |
| Rail |
|
1.1 |
| Car or taxi |
|
4.4 |
| Bicycle |
|
50.0 |
| Pedestrians |
|
70.0 |
| Motorcycle |
|
104.0 |
|
|
|
|
|
Sport:
deaths per million participant hours |
| Amateur boxing, UK |
1946-62 |
0.5 |
| Canoeing, UK |
1960-62 |
10.0 |
| Rock-climbing, UK |
1961 |
40.0 |
| Scuba diving, UK |
1970-80 |
220.0 |
| Hang-gliding |
1977-79 |
1500.0 |
|
|
|
|
|
Medical procedures:
deaths per million cases |
| Vaccination |
|
1.0 |
| Anaesthesia |
1986 |
5.0 |
| Anaesthesia |
1970-73 |
40.0 |
| Childbearing |
1987-89 |
69.0 |
| Childbearing |
1974-76 |
100.0 |
| Needle biopsy of the liver |
|
200.0 |
|
