Title: World War One Statistics
Headings: World War One Statistics
World War One Statistics
Content: Military people were not the only lives lost because of WWI. Millions of civilians were casualties of the fighting. One million Armenians were slaughtered by Turkish forces. Some historians believe that close to 5 million people were killed in the Russian Civil war. The Spanish influenza epidemic broke out at the end of the war and this caused another 20 to 40 million deaths among the populace that already was suffering from deprivation. Of course, all of these numbers do not account for the missing and the unaccounted for the 6 million prisoners of war. It is believed there were 20 million people living in areas that were occupied by German, Austro-Hungarian, and Bulgarian rule. 10 million people fled and sought refuge in countries across Europe. The war left 3 million widows and nearly 6 million children without parents. There were 1.3 billion shells fired with most of them originating from the Western front.