World War I casualties

Categories: World War I | Aftermath of World War I | War casualties

This article contains a summary of deaths by nationality during World War I.

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Military Deaths

Included in brackets the percent of the total forces mobilized by that country that were killed in action.

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Pie chart comparing casualties of the Allied Powers
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Graves of French soldiers who died on the Ypres Salient and are interred at Ypres Necropole National, Ieper, Belgium.
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Pie chart comparing casualties of the Central Powers

Note: This data shows deaths only, not casualties, which include the wounded as well as the dead.

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Allied soldiers killed

Total Allied soldiers killed: approximately 5.17 million

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Central Powers soldiers killed

Total Central Powers soldiers killed: approximately 3.4 million
Total soldiers killed worldwide: approximately 8.6 million

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Civilians killed

  • Austria-Hungary: 300,000
  • Belgium: 30,000
  • Bulgaria: 275,000
  • France: 40,000
  • Germany: 760,000 (mainly by famine)
  • Greece: 132,000
  • Norway: 1,900 sailors died, mostly by their vessels torpedoed by German submarines. Norway lost about 50% of it's merchant fleet, percentage-wise the highest loss of any nations merchant fleet in WWI.
  • Romania: 275,000
  • Russia: 2,000,000
  • Serbia: 950,000
  • Ottoman Empire: 2,150,000 (includes victims of Armenian massacre)
  • United Kingdom: 31,000
  • United States: Approx. 200 (128 on the RMS Lusitania as well as crewmen on one or more merchant ships; even the round number of American civilian deaths is still debated with some historians holding the opinion that technically, no American civilian casualties can be counted)

Total civilians killed: approximately 6.5 million
Total people killed in World War I: up to 15.1 million

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See also

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