Vampires tend to eat a person or two every week or two. Ones who eat more than that have historically experienced shorter lifespans—they are more likely to slip up in a way that gets Volturi attention. The new regime will probably cause a statistically significant drop in the death rate, although probably not the recorded murder rate, as it’s been widely considered unwise by the vampire community to leave evidence of murder instead of simply disappearance.
Right—the relevant statistic would be missing persons, not murder. So, probably on the order of hundreds of thousands worldwide, with a few hotspots like Volterra which would have significant local changes.
Vampires tend to eat a person or two every week or two. Ones who eat more than that have historically experienced shorter lifespans—they are more likely to slip up in a way that gets Volturi attention. The new regime will probably cause a statistically significant drop in the death rate, although probably not the recorded murder rate, as it’s been widely considered unwise by the vampire community to leave evidence of murder instead of simply disappearance.
Right—the relevant statistic would be missing persons, not murder. So, probably on the order of hundreds of thousands worldwide, with a few hotspots like Volterra which would have significant local changes.
During the Volturi reign hunting was illegal within Volterra itself, and Heidi spread out her harvesting.
Mmhm—that makes sense.
Okay, checking Wikipedia, we have 834,536 missing persons entries in the United States in 2005, with the US composing 4.5% of the world population. If we guessed 200,000 worldwide, vampire-related fatalities could be as much as 1% of the total.
How many of those 834,536 people were eventually found?
Article claims 109,531 open files at the end of the year. Relative to that number, vampire-related fatalities would be 9%.