[OC] All-Time Deadliest Accidents and Disasters vs. One Year of Traffic DeathsSubmitted by databeautifier t3_11ij5le in dataisbeautiful
databeautifier OP t1_jb0yetb wrote
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Yes, it's for the deadliest Maritime accident. The source lists the SS Kiangya as the deadliest with an upper estimate of 3920 deaths which I used and then rounded up (see explanation in the viz and my top-level comment) to 4000. I don't think the intentional sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff would count as an accident because the top of the page says:
>Purposeful disasters, such as terrorist attacks, are omitted; those events can be found at List of battles and other violent events by death toll.
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