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Data from studies on skydiving and BASE jumping.

This could be further refined: skydiving seems to be getting safer over time, with fewer injuries/deaths reported in more recent years. The big skydiving systemic review used here uses statistics from years ago.

Other ways to slice the data might be useful, too-- for example, if there are statistics on tandem diving with an experienced skydiver, or wing-suit flying, or first-time-solo jumps those could be interesting variations to list.

variation	mean_fatality_rate	mean_injury_rate	reference
skydiving	0.000011	0.00044	Barthel C, Halvachizadeh S, Gamble JG, Pape HC, Rauer T. Recreational Skydiving-Really That Dangerous? A Systematic Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 10;20(2):1254. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20021254. PMID: 36674008; PMCID: PMC9859333
BASE	0.0004	0.004	Soreide K, Ellingsen CL, Knutson V. How dangerous is BASE jumping? An analysis of adverse events in 20,850 jumps from the Kjerag Massif, Norway. J Trauma. 2007 May;62(5):1113-7. doi: 10.1097/01.ta.0000239815.73858.88. PMID: 17495709

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+Data from studies on skydiving and BASE jumping.
-[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9859333/ Barthel C, Halvachizadeh S, Gamble JG, Pape HC, Rauer T. Recreational Skydiving-Really That Dangerous? A Systematic Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 10;20(2):1254. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20021254. PMID: 36674008; PMCID: PMC9859333]
+This could be further refined: skydiving seems to be getting safer over time, with fewer injuries/deaths reported in more recent years. The big skydiving systemic review used here uses statistics from years ago.
-From their results: "In total, nearly ten million jumps were reviewed with a mean of 610,000 jumps per year with a risk of injury of 0.044% and a risk of fatality of 0.0011%."
+Other ways to slice the data might be useful, too-- for example, if there are statistics on tandem diving with an experienced skydiver, or wing-suit flying, or first-time-solo jumps those could be interesting variations to list.
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+skydiving|0.000011|0.00044|[https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9859333/ Barthel C, Halvachizadeh S, Gamble JG, Pape HC, Rauer T. Recreational Skydiving-Really That Dangerous? A Systematic Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Jan 10;20(2):1254. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20021254. PMID: 36674008; PMCID: PMC9859333]
+BASE|0.0004|0.004|[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17495709/ Soreide K, Ellingsen CL, Knutson V. How dangerous is BASE jumping? An analysis of adverse events in 20,850 jumps from the Kjerag Massif, Norway. J Trauma. 2007 May;62(5):1113-7. doi: 10.1097/01.ta.0000239815.73858.88. PMID: 17495709]
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