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Shark attacks worldwide 2000-2020

Published by M. Szmigiera, Mar 30, 2021
In 2020, there were a total of 57 unprovoked shark attacks on humans worldwide. That was the lowest number of unprovoked shark attacks since 2008. In 2020, however, 10 of the unprovoked attacks were fatal, which was a higher number than previous years.

Number of unprovoked shark attacks worldwide from 2000 to 2020

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Release date

January 2021

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2000 to 2020

Supplementary notes

Unprovoked attacks are defined as incidents where an attack on a live human occurs in the shark’s natural habitat with no human provocation of the shark.

Data for previous years can be found here.

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