• egrets@lemmy.world
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    That’s against a population of ~144 million, so with overlap:

    • 0.70% of the population (1 in 143 people) have been killed or wounded
    • 0.31% of the population (1 in 323 people) are permanent combat losses
    • 0.17% (1 in 588 people) have been killed or are missing
    • nahostdeutschland@feddit.orgOP
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      After the war started, I took a look at russian demographics and according to the last statistics posted before the war, Russia was at around 22 million males between 18 and 40. We know that they are also recruiting older males, people from Donbas and Crimea and other countries. We know that a huge amount of russians left the country after the invasion. We do not really know how many and we do not know how many have returned due to visa issues etc.

      1 million is a really, really big number

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      For comparison with wars that the US has been involved in - Deaths as percentage of total population

      • 0.21% in the War of 1812
      • 0.11% in WW1
      • 0.39% in WW2

      Taken from Wikipedia