The World Health Organization's Commission on Social Connection reports that one in six people worldwide is affected by loneliness, associated with an estimated 871,000 deaths each year, approximately one hundred every hour. Prevalence is highest among those aged thirteen to twenty-nine and highest again in low-income countries, twenty-four percent against eleven. The United States Surgeon General places the mortality risk alongside smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. In Spain, twenty percent of adults live with unwanted loneliness and 13.5 percent have done so for two years or more, rising to 34.6 percent among those aged eighteen to twenty-four, at an estimated national cost of €14,141 million, 1.17 percent of gross domestic product. No dating platform caused this. Every dating platform is priced against it.