2 percent
2%
during the time 2% of the population died in the civil war
54% of union soldiers died
22.75%
Well... the North (Union) lost 140,414 people. And the South (Confederacy) lost an estimated 94,000 people. Adding these two numbers together I got a total of 234,414 battle deaths in the American Civil War. So... the North had 60% of the battle deaths in the Civil War.
15
it would be 3115920
most people died
About 190,000 out of a population of about 5 million in England. 60,000 out of a population of 1 million in Scotland. 600,000 out of 1.5 million in Ireland!
over 4 thousand people died from yellow fever
One third of the population died from the plague which was about 25 million persons.
Of the white males who were between the ages of 13 and 43 in 1830, 8 percent of them died in the Civil War. Of those 8 percent, the number of white males from the South that died was three times higher than the number from the North.