How Many dog Bites a Year in the USA 2018/2019?

How Many People Were Bitten by dogs in the USA 2018/2019?

Let's check the number of dog bites from 2000 to 2018, assessed by Statista.com:

68 million dogs in the USA 2000 <-> no info on bites
78 million dogs in the USA 2009 <-> 4.5 million bites
90 million dogs in the USA 2018 <-> 5.2 million bites

      Yes, 5.2 MILLION dog bites in 2018, USA alone!

or 

       5.2 MILLION PEOPLE were bitten by dogs in 2018, USA alone!

or

       One out of 18 dogs have bitten someone in the US in 2018!

Note that this number of over 5 million dog bites in the US in 2018 alone is a LOWER estimate since most dog bites are simply not reported and the victims are not taken to the hospital, specially when those victims are directly related to the attacking dog owner since they do not want to run the risk to have their dog confiscated or euthanized or to avoid charges like child endangerment or to pay any fines.

The U.S. population is approximately 325.7 million people as of 2017. That means that

      Each dog has a chance of bitting 1 out of every 69 people.

A better estimate, made by reputable sources, would be three 3 times higher; around 15 million dog bites in the US in 2018 alone!

      Better estimate: Fifteen million dog bites in 2018 in the US alone!

 Anyway, I'm going to keep that lower number so that no one can accuse us, the "insane dog haters"of inflating those already gigantic numbers.

Also, 5,2 million dog bites a year mean that over 14 thousand people are bitten everyday!

      Over 14.000 people were bitten EVERYDAY in 2018 in the US!

There also the number of people who need to go to a hospital, many times requiring governmental resources like Police and Ambulance:

- 4.5 million dog bites USA 2009 <-> 800,000 of those bites resulted in medical care
- 5.2 million dog bites USA 2018 <-> 920,000 of those bites resulted in medical care in the US in 2018

 So, 

      Over 900,000 - 9 hundred thousand - people required medical care in the US in 2018

Isn't it insane? Absolutely!  (But some people are profiting from it so that is why they keep going on and growing steadily).

But wait, there is more:

That statistic about 1 person in 69 being bitten is just for a single year. If you do the math based on those numbers that’s what you get; 5.2 million divide 330 million equals 0.015, or 1 in 69. So, what are the chances of being bitten after a decade? Or in your lifetime? Some people have been bit several times in their  lives, most of them probably not so serious, and most of them probably when a kid. 

So, 1 person in 69 being bitten is just for a single year. Over a lifetime it's way more than that. Let's see.

​Actually, if you are to live let's say for 80 years and every year you have a 1 in 69 chance of being bitten, well, as a plain simple guesstimate, when you get to the age of 69 (from 1 in 69) you statistically will have already be bitten once!

But as some other people may be bitten twice or more while others none, than when you get to your final year of 80 years old, 11 years later from 69yo, you will be very possibly having being bitten at least once! Almost a certainty! So,

YOU, and I, and EVERYBODY ELSE in the WORLD*
will be almost certain be BITTEN by a dog
in OUR LIFETIME at least ONCE!
(Your kids, too!)

And let's not forget all the innumerable diseases too, mentioned ahead. Simply sickening.

* Still statistically speaking, there is one single country in the world, a civilized one where there are ALMOTS NO DOGS! But I'm not going to say which paradise it is otherwise dog lovers would ruin that place in a moments notice. They aretrying though. Detail, that is not a Muslin country like UAE United Arab Emirates where they ALSO do not tolerate dogs, simply because those animals are considered too filthy for them.

There is ONE single COUNTRY that do NOT HAVE almost any dogs AT ALL!

In others words

You have an almost ZERO chance of being BITTEN by dogs in that country.
Or either getting DISEASED, MAIMED, MAULED or even KILLED by dogs!

A safer place with almost NO dogs!

Isn't it nice?

How Many dog Bites a Year in the World 2018/2019?

For the world number of dog bites in the World:
90 million dogs 2018, USA <-> 5.19 million bites
900 million dogs 2018, World <-> 51.9 million bites

So, 52 million dog bites a year in the WORLD 2018/2019.
In other words, 52 MILLION people are bitten by dogs every year in the world.

As one in five dog bites tends to require medical attention in a hospital ER:
52 million dog bites in the World <->10.4 million need medical attention in a hospital ER

So, an staggering 

OVER TEN MILLION - 10.4 million - people had to go to the hospital to be treated due to a
dog bite injury in the World 2018!

 Lots of money for doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, politicians, lawyers... right?

Than, if in 2016 more than 31.000 people underwent reconstructive surgery (in the US only) as a result of being bitten by dogs:
2016 - dog pop US 75 million - rec surg 31,000
2018 - dog pop World 900 mil - rec surg 372,000!!!!!

Again, the absurd number of  

372,000 people underwent reconstructive surgery in the World as a result of being bitten by dogs!

Certainly, many of those victims living in third world countries or in very poor conditions anywhere could NOT GET ANY reconstructive surgery and so became disfigured FOR LIFE or simply DIED for lack of adequate treatment. We can not know for sure how many because these numbers do not exist but the attacks, bites, injuries and victims are a TRUE calamity!

Going on:

How Many PEOPLE are KILLED by dogs EVERY YEAR
in the USA/ World in 2018/2019

Comparing those numbers from the US to the World, we have:

- 90 million dogs (USA 2018) <-> ~50 deaths of people killed by dogs (USA 2018)
- 900 million dogs (World 2018) <-> ~500 deaths of people killed by dogs (World 2018)

FIVE HUNDRED people - 500 HUMANS - were DIRECTLY KILLED
by dogs in the World 2018/2019

Another problem is: those were the DIRECT deaths of humans by dogs, they do Not include the INdirect deaths of humans caused the enormous, countless (?) and growing (!) number of diseases caused by dogs and/or transmitted by dogs.

• Rabies
• Leishmaniosis
• Leptospirosis
• Psittacosis
• Campylobacteriosis
• Salmonellosis
• E. coli
  ...
• Water contamination
• Stress
• Depression
• Lack of sleep
• Heart diseases
  ...
• Mental illnesses (plural) of dog lovers themselves
  ...

And many more but I'm gonna stop here. There is coming an specific article on the many diseases caused by dogs. This article here is just about numbers, gigantic and horrible numbers as we can see. 

So, how many people are KILLED by dogs Directly and INdirectly every year in the World 2018/2019? We simply do not know. Thousands? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? A couple million people killed by dogs and its diseases??? We don't know.

Maybe it's even MORE than a couple million. But we just do not know. So,

Too many, maybe MILLIONS of HUMANS were KILLED  by DOGS
AND their DISEASES in the WORLD 2018/2019

This insanity has to end. Enough!


Please also visit:
- How Many Dogs Are There In The World and USA - 2018/2019?
- How Many dogs Die Daily?
- How Many dogs Are Too Many?


Sources:
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/how-many-dogs-are-there-in-the-world.html
https://www.statista.com/statistics/198100/dogs-in-the-united-states-since-2000/
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5226a1.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00047723.htm
https://www.dogsbite.org

Several other pages from www.cdc.gov that do no exist online anymore but are saved in pdf format stored together my files. If you want a copy for a truly useful reason, and are a person truly immersed in this quest against dangerous dogs, I'll kindly provide it to you.