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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
- 22
million - Landmines buried in Egyptian deserts
- 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
- 3 - Cost in U.S. dollars of a cheap landmine
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