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World War I casualties
Classification of casualty statistics
Casualties by 1914 borders
Casualties by modern borders
Austria
Belgian Congo
Czechoslovakia
Estonia
French colonies
German colonies
Hungary
Ireland
Poland
Romania
British colonies
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Nepal
Notes on sources
Footnotes
See also
References
Sources
External links

Content: estimates of total deaths range from 9 million to over 15 million The figures listed here are from official secondary sources, whenever available. These sources are cited below. Military casualty statistics listed here include 6.8 million combat related deaths as well as 3 million military deaths caused by accidents, disease and deaths while prisoners of war. First World War civilian deaths are 'hazardous to estimate" according to Michael Clodfelter who maintains that “The generally accepted figure of noncombatant deaths is 6.5 million” The figures listed below include about 6 million excess civilian deaths due to war related malnutrition and disease that are often omitted from other compilations of World War I casualties. The war brought about malnutrition and disease caused by a disruption of trade resulting in shortages of food; the mobilization for the war took away millions of men from the agricultural labor force cutting food production. The civilian deaths listed below also include the Armenian Genocide. Civilian deaths due to the Spanish flu have been excluded from these figures, whenever possible. Furthermore, the figures do not include deaths during the Turkish War of Independence and the Russian Civil War . Casualties by 1914 borders
Allies of World War I
Population (millions)
Military deaths
Direct civilian deaths (due to military action)
Excess civilian deaths (due to famine, disease & accidents)
Total deaths
Deaths as % of population
Military wounded
Australia b
4.5
61,966


61,966
1.38%
152,171
Canada d
7.2
64,976

2,000
66,976
0.92%
149,732
India (British colony) g
315.1
74,187


74,187
0.02%
69,214
New Zealand
l
1.1
18,052


18,052
1.64%
41,317
Newfoundland m
0.2
1,570


1,570
0.65%
2,314
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland s
45.4
886,939
2,000
107,000
995,939
2.19%
1,663,435
Sub-total for British Empire
-
1,115,597
2,000
109,000
1,226,597
-
2,090,212
East Africa a



See footnote

Belgium c
7.4
58,637
7,000
55,000
120,637
1.63%
44,686
France e
39.6
1,397,800
40,000
260,000
1,697,800
4.29%
4,266,000
Kingdom of Greece f
4.8
26,000

150,000
176,000
3.67%
21,000
Kingdom of Italy h
35.6
651,000
4,000
585,000
1,240,000
3.48%
953,886
Empire of Japan
i
53.6
415


415
0%
907
Luxembourg
j
0.3



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Kingdom of Montenegro k
0.5
3,000


3,000
0.6%
10,000
Portugal n
6.0
7,222

82,000
89,222
1.49%
13,751
Kingdom of Romania o
7.5
250,000
120,000
330,000
700,000
9.33%
120,000
Russian Empire p
175.1
1,811,000 to 2,254,369
500,000 (1914 borders)
1,000,000 (1914 borders)
3,311,000 to 3,754,369
1.89% to 2.14%
3,749,000 to 4,950,000
Kingdom of Serbia q
4.5
275,000
150,000
300,000
725,000
16.11%
133,148
United States t
92.0
116,708
757

117,465
0.13%
205,690
Total (Entente Powers)
800.4
5,712,379
823,757
2,871,000
9,407,136
1.19%
12,809,280
Central Powers
Population (millions)
Military deaths
Direct civilian deaths (due to military action)
Excess civilian deaths (due to famine, disease & accidents)
Total deaths
Deaths as % of population
Military wounded
Austria-Hungary u
51.4
1,100,000
120,000
347,000
1,567,000
3.05%
3,620,000
Kingdom of Bulgaria v
5.5
87,500

100,000
187,500
3.41%
152,390
German Empire w
64.9
2,050,897
1,000
425,000
2,476,897
3.82%
4,247,143
Ottoman Empire x
21.3
771,844

2,150,000
2,921,000
13.72%
400,000
Total (Central Powers)
143.1
4,010,241
121,000
3,022,000
7,153,241
5%
8,419,533
Neutral nations
Denmark y
2.7

722

722
0.03%
_
Norway z
2.4

1,892

1,892
0.08%
_
Sweden z
5.6

877

877
0.02%
_
Grand total
954.2
9,722,620
948,248
5,893,000
16,563,868
1.75%
21,228,813
Casualties by modern borders
Map of Territorial Changes in Europe after World War I
The war involved multi-ethnic empires such as Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austro-Hungary and Turkey.