World / 15 weeks ago

A century on, this is how World War I wiped out nations

More than a century after the guns went silent, The World in Maps is highlighting the human cost of World War I. Marked in shades of red, pink and black, the map estimates what proportion of each country’s population died in the conflict. Countries like Serbia and the Ottoman Empire are shaded the darkest, indicating that more than 10% of their populations died; other nations fall into bands ranging from 4‑10% down to below 0.5%.