Worldwide, 45 million unborn babies were killed in the womb last year according to data released by Worldometer.
The finding accounts for over 42 percent of all human deaths in 2024, surpassing deaths from cancer, malaria, HIV/AIDS, smoking, and traffic accidents combined.
As reported by Breitbart, the statistics have prompted observers to call abortion “the social justice cause of our time” due to the fact that it overshadows all other social issues.
According to a study published in the Open Journal of Preventive Medicine in 2016, abortion accounts for roughly a third of all annual deaths, including over 60 percent of African American deaths.
One black pastor, The Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr., noted that 52 percent of African American pregnancies end in abortion and that abortion is also “the least regulated medical procedure” and is often “completely ignored by health regulation enforcement” despite being the most common operation performed on women.
Citing statistics, Rev. Childress shared that nearly 1,800 unborn black babies are aborted every day, proportionately more than any other race.
As reported by LifeSiteNews, the abortion toll of 45 million unborn children in 2024 surpassed Canada’s entire population of about 40 million, noting that the equivalent of an entire country is “killed by abortion.”