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Abortion was the leading cause of death globally in 2021, with nearly 43 million unborn babies killed in the womb, according to data provided by Worldometer. As of noon on December 31, 2021, there were 42.6 million abortions performed in the course of the year, Worldometer revealed, while 8.2 million people died from cancer, 5 million from smoking, 1.7 million of HIV/AIDS, 1.3 million from traffic fatalities, and 1 million from suicide. Totaling all the deaths in the world from causes other than abortion reveals a figure of 58.7 million, meaning that abortions accounted for just over 42 percent of...

According to CDC at this link https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm total number of deaths in 2018 in the US was 2,839,205 (2019 data is not available yet). And according to the CDC at this link https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm, the estimated total deaths in the US as of Nov 16 in 2020 so far is 2,487,350. If death continues at the same rate for remainder of the year then 2020 total would end up being 2,842,685, which would be essentially identical to 2019 (difference of 0.1%).