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Answered 2011-08-07 02:23:06
As with every war in history, we don't have exact numbers, but the following estimates seem to be reasonable. Altogether, approximately 65 million combatants fought in Word War 1. Central Powers: 22,850,000
Germany - 11,000,000
Austria-Hungary - 7,800,000
Ottoman Empire - 2,850,000
Bulgaria - 1,200,000
Allied Powers: 42,632,000
Russia - 12,000,000
British Empire - 8,904,000
France - 8,410,000
Italy - 5,615,000
United States - 4,744,000
Japan - 800,000
Romania - 740,000
Serbia - 707,000
Belgium - 267,000
Greece - 230,000
Portugal - 65,000
Montenegro - 50,000
Just looking at the number of people fighting from each country doesn't necessarily give a very accurate picture of the war. For example, the United States brought nearly 5 million troops to the war, but they were in the conflict for less than a year and only sustained 320,000 casualties. Countries that had been in the war for years and suffered casualties of millions of soldiers as well as civilians were Germany and Austria- Hungary, Great Britain, France and Italy. Russia alone suffered 6,700,000 military casualties and additionally 2,000,000 dead civilians.