World War I casualties Totally Explained

Everything about World War I Casualties totally explained

The number of World War I casualties, both military and civilian, was over 40 million — 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded. This includes 9.7 million military deaths and about 10 million civilian deaths. The Entente Powers (also known as the Allies) lost more than 5 million soldiers and the Central Powers about 4 million.

Classification of Casualty Statistics

Estimates for World War I casualty numbers vary to a great extent. Military casualty statistics listed here include combat related deaths as well as losses caused by accidents, disease and prisoner of war deaths. The table lists total deaths; the footnotes give a breakout between combat and non-combat losses.
Most civilian deaths during World War I were due to war related famine and disease. Civilian deaths due to the Spanish flu have been excluded from these figures, whenever possible. Furthermore, estimates of civilian deaths include the Armenian Genocide, and it's debated to which degree - or if at all - this event should be included.
The data listed here's from official sources, whenever available. These sources are cited below.

Casualties by country

Entente Powers	Population Millions	Military Deaths	Civilian Deaths	Total Deaths	Military Wounded
align=left		61,928		61,928	152,171
align=left		42,987	62,000	104,987	44,686
align=left		64,944	2,000	66,944	149,732
align=left		1,397,800	300,000	1,697,800	4,266,000
align=left		26,000	150,000	176,000	21,000
align=left		74,187		74,187	69,214
align=left		651,010	589,000	1,240,010	953,886
align=left		415		415	907
align=left		3,000		3,000	10,000
align=left		18,050		18,050	41,317
align=left		1,204		1,204	2,314
align=left		7,222	82,000	89,222	13,751
align=left		250,000	430,000	680,000	120,000
align=left		1,811,000	1,500,000	3,311,000	4,950,000
align=left		275,000	450,000	725,000	133,148
align=left		9,463		9,463	12,029
align=left		885,138	109,000	994,138	1,663,435
align=left		116,708	757	117,465	205,690
Total (Entente Powers)	789.9	5,696,056	3,674,757	10,353,813	12,809,280
Central Powers	Population Millions	Military Deaths	Civilian Deaths	Total Deaths	Military Wounded
align=left		1,100,000	467,000	1,567,000	3,620,000
align=left		87,500	100,000	187,500	152,390
align=left		2,036,897	426,000	2,462,897	4,247,143
align=left		800,000	4,200,000	5,000,000	400,000
Total (Central Powers)	143.1	4,024,397	5,191,000	9,415,397	8,419,533
Neutral nations
align=left			722	722
align=left		-	1,892	1,892
align=left		-	877	877
Grand Total	941.0	9,720,453	8,869,248	19,772,701	21,228,813

Table sources

The main sources used for military and civilian deaths (unless stated otherwise in the footnotes below) are:

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Annual Report 2006-2007 is the source of the military dead for the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, and India. The war dead totals listed in the report are based on the research by the CWGC to identify and commemorate Commonwealth war dead. The totals include those killed or missing in action and died of wounds as well as deaths due to disease, accidents; deaths of prisoners of war, military deaths outside of combat theaters and war related deaths during 1919-1921. The report is available online at (External Link).

Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire During the Great War 1914-1920, The War Office March 1922 -This report lists the deaths of 908,371 soldiers killed or missing in action; died of wounds; and POW deaths in the combat theaters from to 1914-18. The figures from the War Office report for the UK and Dominion nations are listed in the footnotes.The losses of Bulgaria and Portugal were also listed in the War Office report.

Casualties and Medical Statistics, 1931, the final volume of the Official Medical History of the War, gives a breakout of British Empire Army losses by cause of death. Total losses in combat theaters from 1914-1918 were 876,084, which included 418,361 killed, 167,172 died of wounds, 113,173 died of disease or injury, 161,046 missing and presumed dead and 16,332 prisoner of war deaths . These losses were not broken out for the UK and each Dominion..

Huber Michel,La Population de la France pendant la guerre, Paris 1931, This study published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace lists official data for war related military deaths and missing of France and its colonies.

Mortara, Giorgo. La Salute pubblica in Italia durante e dopo la Guerra, New Haven: Yale University Press 1925. The official government Italian statistics on war dead are listed here. A brief summary of data from this report can be found online at -(External Link

)(go to Vol 13, No. 15).

Urlanis, Boris Wars and Population, Moscow, 1971, Lists the military dead of Russia, Greece, Serbia and Montenegro.. Estimated combat related casualties; killed and missing in action or died of wounds are detailed for each nation. These figures are listed in the footnotes.

Heeres-Sanitätsinspektion im Reichskriegsministeriums, Sanitätsbericht über das deutsche Heer, (Deutsches Feld- und Besatzungsheer), im Weltkriege 1914-1918, Volume 3, Sec. 1, Berlin 1934.- The official German Army medical war history listed German losses.

Grebler, Leo and Winkler, Wilhelm The Cost of the World War to Germany and Austria-Hungary, Yale University Press, 1940, -This study published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace details the losses of Austria-Hungary and Germany in the war,

Erickson, Edward J. Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War, Greenwood 2001, ISBN 0313315167. The data published here for casualties is from official Ottoman sources

Hersch, Liebmann, La mortalité causée par la guerre mondiale, Metron- The International Review of Statistics, 1927, Vol 7. No 1. Detailed the demographic impact of the war on France, the UK, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Serbia, Romania and Greece.(This article is available for purchase from Metron (External Link

)) The main source for military wounded (unless stated otherwise in the footnotes below) is:

Tucker, Spencer C. ed. The European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia, Garland Publishing, New York, 1996.
The source of population data is.

Haythornthwaite, Philip J., The World War One Source Book Arms and Armour, 1993, 412 pages, ISBN 1854091026.

Footnotes

Further Information

Get more info on 'World War I Casualties'.

External Link Exchanges

Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:

<a href="http://world_war_i_casualties.totallyexplained.com">World War I casualties Totally Explained</a>

Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned.