The Great War in Numbers

Death Toll by Country
Sorted by number Mobilized
 
                       Mobilized            Dead         Wounded     Missing/PoW
Russia                12,000,000       1,700,000       4,950,000       2,500,000
Germany               11,000,000       1,773,700       4,216,058       1,152,800
Great Britain          8,904,467         908,371       2,090,212         191,652
France                 8,410,000       1,375,800       4,266,000         537,000
Austria-Hungary        7,800,000       1,200,000       3,620,000       2,200,000
Italy                  5,615,000         650,000         947,000         600,000
US                     4,355,000         126,000         234,300           4,526
Turkey                 2,850,000         325,000         400,000         250,000
Bulgaria               1,200,000          87,500         152,390          27,029
Japan                    800,000             300             907               3
Rumania                  750,000         335,706         120,000          80,000
Serbia                   707,343          45,000         133,148         152,958
Belgium                  267,000          13,716          44,686          34,659
Greece                   230,000           5,000          21,000           1,000
Portugal                 100,000           7,222          13,751          12,318
Montenegro                50,000           3,000          10,000           7,000

 

1 . . . . .  Still unexploded mine shaft at Messines [Yes, today]

2 . . .Officers of Gen. Pershing's staff to win Nobel Peace Prize

4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Members of Central Powers

5 . . . . .  Capital ships lost by Britain and Germany at Jutland

7 . .German armies invading Northern France under Schlieffen Plan

 


 

11 . . . . . . . Italian offensives on the Isonzo River,1915-1918

12 . .  Air Aces of all nations with more than 50 aircraft downed

23 . . . . . . . . . .Allied vessels sunk by German cruiser Emden

24 . . Nations declaring war on one or more of the Central Powers

35 . . . . . . . . . . . . Range in yards of German Flammenwerfer

38 . . . . . Length in miles of Voie Sacree, Bar le Duc to Verdun

50 . . . . . . Seconds of  machine gun fire  available to typical

                                                    fighter plane

51 . . . . . German warships scuttled at Scapa Flow, 21 June 1919

55 . . . . . . Mutineers actually executed by French Army in 1917

68 . . . . .  Average daily British advance in yards, 3rd Ypres -

                                Passchendaele, 31 July-7 Dec 1917

80 . . . . . . . . Distance fired in miles by German  Paris  guns

81 .Jastas (fighter squadrons) avail. German Air Service Mar 1918

 


 

103 . . . . . .  German airship and bomber raids on Great Britain

120 . . American infantry regiments in action, 2nd week, Oct 1918

123 . . . . . . Zeppelin and similar airships produced by Germany

132 . . . . . .  German soldiers captured by Sgt. York 8 Oct 1918

136 . . . . . . . Russian divisions on Eastern Front, Spring 1916

174 . .  American killed in action in Northern Russia and Siberia

178 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . German U-Boats lost in action

200 . . Estimated Allied soldiers helped to escape by nurse Edith

                   Cavell before her execution by the German Army

324 . . . . . . . .British tanks  in service at Battle of Cambrai

394 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Survivors of 'Lost Battalion'

420 . .Diameter in millimeters of Ger. 'Big Bertha' siege mortars

450 . . . . . . . . .Rounds per minute fired by Lewis machine gun

452 . .Distance in miles Tipperary, Ireland to Armentiers, France

466 . . . . .  . .  Length of Western Front in miles October 1914

634 . . . . . .  . . . .Victoria Crosses awarded in the Great War

675 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allied air raids on Germany

 


 

1,000 . Daily ave. caloric intake German adult civilians Jan 1918

2,600 . . . . . . . . . . . . Allied ships sunk by German U-Boats

3,500 . . .  Distance in miles of Lettow-Vorbeck's African 'Trek'

4,278 . . .Trains required to mobilize French Army in August 1914

5,200 . . . . .US Casualties per sq. mile, Belleau Wood June 1918

5,400 . . . . .  Sopwith Camel fighter planes produced by Britain

8,237 . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Tanks produced by all combatants

13042 . . . . . . . .Code identifying group on Zimmerman Telegram

 


 

16,500 . . . Distance in yards of initial opening fire at Jutland

17,000 . . . . . . . . . . .  75-mm field guns produced by France

56,000 . . . . . . . . Mines laid by US Navy in North Sea barrage

58,000 . . . . Estimated British casualties, 1st day on the Somme

75,000 . . . . . . . .Japanese troops deployed to Siberia in 1918

 


 

100,000 . . . Size of German Army allowed under Versailles Treaty

116,000 . . . . . . . . . . .American military killed, all causes

275,000 . . . . . . . . . . .Italian prisoners taken at Caporetto

325,000 . . . . . . . . .Turkish military killed in the Great War

460,000 . . . . . . . . .Italian military killed in the Great War

529,808 . . . . . . . . British and Commonwealth military killed:

                                     neither identified nor found

584,996 . . . . . . . . British and Commonwealth military killed:

                                            identified and buried

 


 

1,200,000 . . . Austro-Hungarian military killed in the Great War

1,385,000 . . . . . . . . French military killed in the Great War

1,700,000 . . . . . . . .Russian military killed in the Great War

1,808,000 . . . . . . . . German military killed in the Great War

7,000,000 . . . Estimated combatants maimed for life, all nations

8,000,000 . . . Est. civilians killed in Great War: Non-influenza

8,300,000 . . . . . . .  Estimated combatants killed, all nations

 


 

19,536,000 . . . . . . .  Estimated wounded soldiers, all nations

21,500,000 . . . . Min. deaths in 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic

32,000,000 . Estimated artillery shells fired in Battle of Verdun

61,526,000 .  Soldiers mobilized by all belligerents in Great War

 


 

23,000,000,000 . Reparations demanded by Allied Powers in dollars

82,400,000,000 . .Direct Cost of war to belligerents-1913 dollars

 


 

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                     fits,  lost  human capital and productivity,

                     reconstruction requirements, expenses due to

                     subsequent  catastrophes caused by the Great

                     War, etc., etc.