Talk:World War II casualties/Archives/2015/September

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)