The Top 5 Countries with the Highest Proportion of Military Dead in World War 1

  Country % Wounded % Missing/POW % Dead
1 Romania 16.00 % 10.67 % 44.75 %
2 France 50.73 % 6.39 % 16.36 %
3 Germany 38.33 % 10.48 % 16.12 %
4 Austria-Hungary 46.41 % 28.21 % 15.38 %
5 Russia 41.25 % 20.83 % 14.17 %
Share on Social Media:
Tags: Death Statistics, War and the Military, Germany, France

Sources:  Top 5 of Anything Research: Mitchell, T.J. (1931). Casualties and Medical Statistics of the Great War.

List Notes: List is ranked according to deaths as a percentage of troops mobilized during World War 1. Please note: Exact figures are difficult to find with respect to wars and these numbers should be viewed as near estimates because of the different definitions used for each category, the questionable accuracy of the recording systems used and the loss or destruction of a number of official documents.
Countries with the Highest Proportion of Military Dead in World War 1

Related Top 5 Lists