TIL 57% of the men mobilised in World War I died
statisticbrain.com/world-war-i-statistics/Posted Apr 6, 2014, 8:56 PM UTC
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I think its closer to 100%.
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FYI: Casualty doesn't necessarily mean the soldier killed or died. All wounded and missing also count as a casualty of war.
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My great grandfather was in WWI and survived. He told my dad when Vietnam was at its height that "War is business, nothing more." He planned to hide my dad in Canada if he got drafted too.
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My Dad fought in the Battle of the Bulge in WW II. My three brothers were old enough for Viet Nam. He never spoke about the war, he'd gotten a purple heart and a bronze star. He did tell my brothers to do anything they could to stay out of it. He didn't elaborate but he was emphatic. After he died our Mom showed us a letter he'd written her after the war but before he rotated home. Of the 200 men in his company 183 were killed or wounded during the 3 weeks of fighting his unit endured. This was a desperate fight during a severely cold winter. Approximately 19,000 Americans died in a month of beating back the German attack. No wonder he told my brothers to stay out any way they could.
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The Lost Generation
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Casualties, not died.
Still a terrible statistic. Still something worth thinking about. A casualty back then most likely meant missing an arm or half your face. Most boys who left didn't come back whole.
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#### World War II casualties:
World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. Over 60 million people were killed, which was over 2.5% of the world population. The tables below give a detailed country-by-country count of human losses.
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Image ^(i) - American corpses sprawled on the beach of Tarawa. The Marines secured the island after 76 hours of intense fighting with around 6,000 dead in total. Over 100,000 American military personnel died in the Pacific War
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Well actually 100% of the men who mobilized died.
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My Grandad was sent to France. Luckily, he made it back in one piece.
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Besides the misleading statistics, this picture is from WWII, not WWI.
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"Source: History Learnings, World War Three"
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TIL 99% of men mobilised in World War I are dead by now.
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The current number of WWI vets alive right now is 0 and is unlikely to change any time soon.
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A casualty is not necessarily a death.
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Why not 100% . Filthy Autistic Veterans need to fucking eat shit and die. They think there entitled to respect when in reality they aren't entitled to shit. Fuck them all .
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Bad OP, the article you yourself linked had very specific numbers on the number of dead.
Total mobilized: 42.2 million
Deaths: 5.1 million
This is a 12% death rate which is higher than more modern wars but around 10% dead was not uncommon.
The 57% rate is the total number of casualties which includes the dead, wounded, missing and captured as a percentage of the 42.2 million. Both world wars resulted in horrible loss of life but if you were a soldier on the ground you had decent odds of making it home alive.
You had decent odds of not being killed in combat, but the Spanish flu pandemic started in 1918 and that was more lethal than war.
Yep, it managed to kill 3-5% of the world population and it was only that low because only 500 million people were estimated to have been infected. Imagine how scary a virus running rampant today that kills 10-20% of the healthy young people it infects would be? Only the basement dwellers would survive intact!
Ironically and very tragically many of those it killed died indirectly from Aspirin overdoses used in a failed attempt to treat it, rather than from the pandemic disease itself.
In OP's defense it does say "Percentage of men mobilized in World War I who died", not percentage who were casualties, it's just a bad website.