AJWRB.org (Advocates for Jehovah's Witness Reform on Blood), “Estimating Mortality: Epidemiological Extrapolations of Faith-Based Blood Restrictions (page 'Jehovah's Witnesses and Blood – Tens of Thousands Dead in Hidden Tragedy')”
“Because no official mortality data are available, researchers have attempted to estimate the potential impact of the policy using published clinical studies and epidemiological extrapolation.”
Estimates about 1,220 excess deaths worldwide in 2016 and about 33,246 for 1961-2016, from 8,132,358 publishers × 15 transfusion-requiring cases per 1,000 per year × 1% excess mortality (rounded down from an observed 1.4%).
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Provenance and verification note for AJWRB.org (Advocates for Jehovah's Witness Reform on Blood), Estimating Mortality: Epidemiological Extrapolations of Faith-Based Blood Restrictions (page 'Jehovah's Witnesses and Blood – Tens of Thousands Dead in Hidden Tragedy')
Confidence note. Page opened; the figures are an advocacy group's extrapolation, not a count. Label as an estimate with its method whenever used.
Notes. A campaigning organisation’s estimate, used here only as an example of the figures in circulation and labelled unverified.Earlier URL redirects here.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-ajwrb-2026-0723-mortality-estimate