Abortion was the number one cause of death worldwide in 2018 with 42 million victims.
There have been 41.95 million abortions as of December 31st, according to Worldometers, an organization that keeps a running tally through the year of major world statistics and was voted one of the best free reference websites by the American Library Association (ALA). It calculates abortion numbers based on the latest statistics published by the World Health Organization (WHO).
As Breitbart observes, there were more deaths from abortion in 2018 than all deaths from cancer, malaria, HIV/AIDS, smoking, alcohol, and traffic accidentscombined.