This map, created by Arciom Antanovič in 2022 with the information available in the Robert Schuman European Centre, shows the number of casualties for each European country involved in the First World War.
The author uses colours to indicate which countries had the highest number of casualties, although he also includes the percentage of the total population that this number of victims represented, which is a figure that clarifies the real impact. In descending order:
- Serbia: 16.11% of the population.
- Ottoman Empire: 13.71% of the population.
- Romania: 9.11% of the population.
- France: 4.31% of the population.
- Germany: 3.81 per cent of the population.
- Greece: 3.71% of the population.
- Italy: 3.51 per cent of the population.
- Bulgaria: 3.41 per cent of the population.
- Austro-Hungarian Empire: 3.01% of the population.
- United Kingdom: 2.21% of the population.
The impact of the war on Serbia has been much debated throughout history. It is clear that the direct attack by the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the beginning of the war caused a large number of casualties. Official figures from Yugoslavia and now Serbia put the figure at 25% of the population, with more than 60% of the country's men.
In the rest of the world, the war had a lesser impact, but it was still quite significant in countries such as Australia and New Zealand.
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