Military deaths
Jamie links to the sad story that World War II has apparently seen another death. Total deaths during that War (or at least between 1939 and 1945) are estimate at around 63m, this is around 875,000 a month, or nearly 30,000 a day (I'd have thought compared with about 60,000 or so natural deaths a day at the time). Wikipedia lists the deaths by country - the worst hit was the Soviet Union, at 23.2m, but the worst as a % of its population was Poland, which lost 16.1% (though I am not sure whether this is adjusted for population movements).The worst hit as a % for civilian deaths (excluding Jewish Holocaust victims,) was Portuguese Timor, at 11%, followed by Lithuania and Latvia, on 8% and 7%. Including Jewish victims puts Poland first, followed by Lithuania. In terms of military deaths Germany on 8% and the Soviet Union, on 6%, are easily the worst.What Wikipedia doesn't have, and which would be quite interesting, is how the 62m deaths were distributed over the six years.
posted by Matthew @ 9/05/2006 12:40:00 PM
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