Talk:World War II casualties/Archives/2015/September
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Effect on World Population and Mortality Rates
In terms of the big picture, it would be great to show the effect that WWII has on world population and mortality rates. I have been trying to determine this, but have found that most yearly population data sets do not go back before 1950. There is a lot of research that uses population estimates before and after war to determine WWII death counts on a country basis, but I am having trouble finding estimates that show a timeline of the world statistics during the war. Any ideas? p.s. I created The Fallen of World War II (http://www.fallen.io/ww2) with great help from this page. Thank you, thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neilhalloran (talk • contribs) 15:10, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
We can only use reliable sources when posting to Wikipedia. I am not aware of reliable sources that show a timeline of the world population statistics during the course of the war. IMO this would not be possible because the war dead were tabulated in most nations using a population balance, for example in China, Poland and the USSR we have estimated total losses for the entire war that do not name the individual dead. --Woogie10w (talk) 16:37, 15 September 2015 (UTC)