About HumanToll
HumanToll asks how much human life is in the things people buy, and answers only as far as public data and an explicit model allow.
HumanToll is a research project of Quiescence (quiescence.eu). It has no funding, earns no income and sells nothing. Its method, sources and assumptions are published before any figure, and every figure it publishes comes with its range — the low and high values it could reasonably be.
Where it stands
Estimates are published. Each one names the calculation it came from, its scenario, and the versions of the method and data used.
Who makes it
Quiescence, which one person runs. There is no institution behind it and no sponsor. Advanced access to its data is arranged by writing to info@quiescence.eu.
What it will not do
- Name a company, a brand or a person. It studies typical products and how they are made, not who makes them.
- Say "caused by". Every figure links harm to the making of a product under stated assumptions, with the method one click away.
- Call for a boycott. It shows why two products differ; what to do about it is the reader’s decision.
- Show a figure without its range, or with more precision than it has: never more than two meaningful digits.
- Store anything about its readers. A basket stays in the reader’s browser, and a correction carries no name.
Whose data, on what terms
Every figure is built from public data, each source under its own licence, listed with its releases on the sources page. Where a licence needed a publisher’s permission for this use, the permission was asked for in writing and is filed with the project’s evidence:
- EXIOBASE 3 — EXIOBASE consortium, 2026-09-22
- WHO Global Health Estimates — World Health Organization, 2026-09-22
- IHME Global Burden of Disease — Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 2026-09-24
How to cite
Cite a figure by the calculation it came from, as shown in the citation box beside it: HumanToll <year>, run <id>, methodology v<version>, and the page’s address. To cite the project itself: HumanToll, Quiescence, https://quiescence.eu/humantoll/.
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