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Old 18-01-09, 17:35
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Default Landmines by the numbers

33 billion - Cost in U.S. dollars to remove every mine in the world, if no others are planted
250 million - Stockpiled landmines worldwide
110 million - Landmines in the ground worldwide
2.5 million - New landmines laid each year
1 million - People killed or maimed by anti-personnel mines since 1975
100,000 - Americans killed or injured by landmines in the 1900s
26,000 - People killed or maimed annually by landmines
1,000 - Cost in U.S. dollars to remove one landmine
350 - Minimum number of different types of landmines
70 - Number of people killed or injured daily by landmines
33 - Percent of U.S. casualties caused by landmines during the Vietnam War
3 - Cost in U.S. dollars of a cheap landmine


Source: OneWorld International, International Campaign to Ban Landmines
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