Ancient history

The Numbers of the First World War

He fought continuously from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918 (52 months) .
In total in the world 74 million and 300 thousand soldiers were mobilized .
The Allies (Italy, France, England, Russia, USA, Serbia) 48 million ;
Central Empires 25 million (Germany, Austria, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria).
The victims were 9 million and 400 thousand in total .
As a result, only 50% of those mobilized did not know death, injury or imprisonment .
Russia had 1,700,000 dead
France 1,350,000
Great Britain 921,000
Italy 650,000
Germany 2 million
Austria-Hungary 1,100,000
Turkey 800,000
The French and German losses were one in six. One in 8 for the British.
The losses (dead, wounded, missing, prisoners) for France were 76% of those mobilized , ditto Russia , Italy 38%, Serbia 80%; Germany 56%, the Austro-Hungarian Empire 77%; the US accounted for 8% with 114,000 deaths.
12% of the losses were less than 20 years old (4.5 million) and 60% of the losses were between 20 and 30 years old.


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