Number of fatal shark attacks doubled in 2023. Risk of being attacked by a shark is extremely small.
However, the number of attacks has increased in the past year. The researchers call one factor “somewhat worrying.” The number of registered attacks has risen sharply over the past few decades. But it has fluctuated greatly over the last ten years: in 2016 there were a particularly large number of 98, and in the pandemic years 2020 and 2022 there were only 57.