2020.. how many people did we actually lose?

2020 is known to be the worst year ever, but how bad was it?

the celebrities death toll reached almost 91 celebrities in 2020 and 39 of them died of COVID-19

source1 : Celebrity deaths in 2020

source2 : Celebrities died of covid-19

1 826 891 is the number of COVID-19 deaths in 2020 and in December, 31st alone a number of 13 909 cases were lost just before they could enter the new year of 2021.

source: total deaths of covid-19

671,987 is the number of people that died from Communicable disease and the number still ongoing till today along with the following numbers and their causes:-

25,387 Seasonal flu deaths

393,555 Deaths of children under 5

16,004 Deaths of mothers during birth

87,041 Deaths caused by HIV/AIDS

425,247 Deaths caused by cancer

20,418 Deaths caused by malaria

258,843 Deaths caused by smoking

129,504 Deaths caused by alcohol

55,525 Suicides

69,897 Road traffic accident fatalities

43,612 Deaths caused by water-related
diseases

27,898 people who died of hunger

source: https://www.worldometers.info

numbers are gathered from WHO, UNICEF, WFP, CDC, AVERT, and UNAIDS. The source of which this article got the numbers from is Worldometers and the WHO website and UNICEF.

2020 was hard but I hope 2021 has more luck and happiness for all people especially the ones that got greatly hurt in the past year. after all, we can only hope, or else depression gonna knock on our doors.

-DAPPLE