A. B. C.
Est'd avail.
Estimated for mil.
Males 18-44 serv. of all
Population inclusive, kinds--70%
1914. 1914. of B.
CENTRAL POWERS
Austria-H'ary 51,000,000 9,360,000 6,500,000
Bulgaria 4,750,000 800,000 560,000
Germany
(Continental) 68,000,000 12,850,000 9,000,000
Ottoman Empire 18,500,000 3,300,000 2,300,000
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Total 142,250,000 26,310,000 18,360,000
ASSOCIATED GOVERNMENTS
Australia 5,000,000 850,000 595,000
Canada 7,500,000 1,275,000 892,500
France 39,000,000 6,630,000 4,640,000
Gt. Britain 46,000,000 7,820,000 5,474,000
India 320,000,000 54,400,000 37,800,000
Italy 36,000,000 6,120,000 4,284,000
Japan 54,000,000 8,180,000 1,390,000
New Zealand 1,200,000 204,000 142,800
Portugal 6,000,000 1,020,000 714,000
Serbia 2,800,000 476,000 333,200
South Africa 6,000,000 1,020,000 714,000
United States 100,000,000 17,000,000 11,900,000
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Total 623,500,000 104,995,000 68,879,500
The casualties resulting in death, permanent injury, or incapacity in
the German Army have amounted to admittedly about 3,000,000 men during
the four years of war, or approximately the same number as have been
supplied by the young men who have reached military age during the same
period. From this statement it would appear that from the point of man
power Germany is no worse off today than when she started the war. The
weakening of the German forces is represented, however, by the lack of
nourishment for her workers, her women and children, and the discharges
which must necessarily follow the reaching of advanced age by the old
men called to the colors, both of which will be felt more keenly as
time goes on, as well as the disease which must necessarily accompany
conditions such as the war has produced. America will not begin to
discharge her men on account of advanced age for twenty years. In other
words, the man power of America will get stronger and the man power of
the enemy must get weaker for the next twenty years, if, by any chance,
the war should last that long. We have nothing to fear from this source.