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==Surveys of deaths==
Baker (1979) estimated 229 annual deaths from circumcision in the [[United States]].<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Baker
|first=Robert L.
|init=
|author-link=
|etal=no
|title=Newborn male circumcision: needless and dangerous
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Sexual Medicine Today
|location=
|date=1979
|season=
|volume=3
|issue=11
|article=
|page=
|pages=35-6
|url=
|archived=
|quote=And let us tell parents that it is not the thing to do unless there is a specific indication.
|accessdate=2022-07-15
}}</ref>
Earp et al. (2018) collected data on 9,833,110 boys who had been neonatally circumcised between 2001 to 2010 in the [[United States]]. The authors found that one death occurs for every 49,166 circumcisions.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Earp