I've been wondering for a very long time how many people from all the countries involved had died in the war. I'm doing a project on the War, and I can't find the info anywhere.
All numbers given are estimates and cannot be verified because the USSR couldn't / wouldn't supply documentation; many of the Japanese records were lost or destroyed, the same is true for some of the German records. Most historians use the 55 million number of civilian and military dead though they are just repeating what others have said in most cases. *shrug* probably never know accurately.
I have heard the figures were closer to 75 million, but, like Grieg already mentioned, they are only estimates. History is only a set of lies agreed upon. :roll:
Hey i got a book right here that tells it the Book is called world war 2 by DK thats who published it Im adding Military and civilian Soviet Union: 25,600,000 United States: 292,000 France:420,000 Britain:305,000 Yougoslavia:1,700,000 China:13,500,000 (Communist and nationlist) Germany:5,250,000 Japan:2,200,000 Ok there is alot more Little countries ill tell you the total it is (for Axis and Allied) Military:10,063,000 Civilians:39,354,000 =49,417,000 These are rough estimiates an i am trusting the book
yes so you are close to 55,000,000 which is around let me think around 5,000,000,0000 lived on the planet and minus 50,000,000 i dano that what a tenth of the population?
I have seen figures for China as high as 30,000... But 50-55 million seems a good ballpark figure. Which is actually a very sobering statistic. If you take Grieg's figure for world population, and 50 million as the total casualties, that means that WW2 caused the death of 1 person in every 40.
Ricky wrote: True, but war will have to come a long ways to rival disease. The Black Death it is estimated killed 1 in 4 of the worlds population.
And the flu epidemic of 1919 killed more people than WW1 did. But disease is a 'natural enemy' if you will, and was aided in the past by the lack of knowledge about it. In WW2 humans deliberately killed 1:40 of the world population.
What shameless Eurocentrism, Grieg! The world was hardly hurt by the Black Death, only Europe was, where the disease did indeed kill 25-40% of the population.
Roel wrote: Touche! I must confess to being wildy Eurocentric Though it is incorrect to state that the world was hardly hurt by the plague. It's true that the percentages change when the rest of the world population is factored in but still it outstrips any war by a long stretch.
