The crime rate in the United States, and indeed, most of the developed world has been plummeting since the early 1990s, with a 50%+ decline across the board, from property crime to murder.

Globally, the rate of death from infectious disease has plummeted over time; the present-day Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed about a fifth as many people as die of the flu in the United States alone every year.

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