GOOD Magazine does it again. With thanks for the tip to Reddit.

Because the planet holds so many more humans than in the past, commenters asked for these pandemics as a percentage of total population. One commenter offered this:

Ordered by the (loose approximation) average number of deaths every day seems a little more interesting than total numbers (if I haven’t made a mess of the calculations (and I’ll delete this post if I have, so don’t respond :)):

• Spanish Flu = 205,479 per day
• Third Pandemic = 32,877 per day
• Tuberculosis = 5,479 per day
• Hong Kong Flu = 2,740 per day
• HIV/AIDS = 2,283 per day
• Malaria = 2,140 per day
• Black Death = 477 per day
• Plague of Justinian = 328 per day
• Measles = 206 per day
• Yellow Fever = 82 per day
• Smallpox = 69 per day
• Cholera = 42 per day
• Typhus = 4 per day

Would be interesting to see cancer, smoking, skin cancer, breast cancer, car-related deaths listed.