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Countries Most Affected by the Spanish Flu

Can you name the countries that lost the most people in the Spanish Flu epidemic of the 1910s?
Source 1, Source 2
One of these was not independent at the time of the epidemic
Quiz by WolfCam
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Last updated: November 12, 2018
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Deaths
Country
17,000,000
India
1,700,000
Iran
1,500,000
Indonesia
675,000
United States
580,000
Germany
400,000
France
Deaths
Country
300,000
Brazil
300,000
Italy
290,000
Spain
250,000
United Kingdom
130,000
Portugal
100,000
Ghana
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Nov 12, 2018
I was surprised by the Iran number so I looked into it. The death toll represents over 20% of Iran's population at the time. The number apparently is a high estimate of everyone who died in Iran during the time period. There was a major famine happening then as well as outbreaks of cholera, typhus, and plague. It would be difficult to tease apart the number of deaths caused by the Spanish flu.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_famine_of_1917-1919

WolfCam
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Level 66
Nov 12, 2018
Good point, I changed the number to be about halfway between the lowest and highest estimate. Although this is likely still too high, I could not find a better approximation.
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