From the article:
From Boko Haram through Islamic State, the Sydney coffee bar siege, and the school attack in Pakistan, 2014 was a year of concern about a global resurgence of terror. That concern will doubtless drive priorities and budgets from Canberra to Washington, D.C., in the years ahead. Yet for all the attention they receive, deaths from terrorist attacks are a rounding error on violent deaths worldwide, which in turn are a rounding error on global mortality statistics. On the whole, premature deaths have been declining since 2000, thanks to the spread of proven health techniques. If we dealt with the major causes of tragically early death with the same urgency we devote to combating terrorism, we could see even more progress in 2015 and the years that follow.
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