COST OF THE WAR IN LIVES
Owing to war influences European lotions engaged in the World War show n potential loss in population of 35.320,000 persons since 1911, according to n statistical research conducted by the Society for Studying the Social Consequences of the War, of Copenhagen. At the end of 1913, the society roporte, the European nations ha A a population of 400,650,000, and under normal conditions this population should have increased by the middle of 1919 to 424,210,000. However, it lind fallen by that time to 389,030,0)0, whioh l«i to the conclusion by Danish: statistical experts that the log? of actual and potential human life of these nations approximated 40,000,000. Causes of the abnormal falling-off in population were attributed in the society's reports as follow;— Killed in war, 9.819,000; deaths due to augmentation of mortality, economio blockade, war epidemics, etc., 5.301,000; fall in birthrate due to mobilisation of 56,000,000 men between 20 'and 45 yeans of ago, 50,200,000.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 81, 30 December 1920, Page 5
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160COST OF THE WAR IN LIVES Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 81, 30 December 1920, Page 5
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