Here’s the weirdest part of population “predictions” if you look at the population of western countries PRE WW2 and after WW2 they are virtually the same.
Never did figure that one out.
Countries like the UK, USA, and France lost less than 1 million. I think that the one that lost the most of those was the USA with 500k dead. Divide 500k/ 3 years, you have an increased mortality of 166k per year, for a country with 180 million people at the time. That's less than 0.1% per year. It means that other factors influencing the population such as demographics, and the birth rate had more of an impact on the American population during those years than the war.
The numbers relating to Germany mentioned in Wikipedia seem to have been 'fixed' in recent years. 5 or 10 years ago, it used to list the pre-war German population as 100 million, and the immediate post-war as 70 million.
Situation regarding Japan is similar with very different figures being mentioned depending on which sources you read.
My point is if you look at the census numbers even for Germany in 1939 vs 1946 it went up. Where are all the dead people? The Jewish population in Europe increased after the war.
Something to thing about
census numbers even for Germany in 1939 vs 1946
I think the numbers that they give for this nowadays are false, somehow they are just doctored or misrepresented.
My German grandfather died during WWII, so had the grandfathers of most German children my age. That's direct evidence that a lot of people died. Also, much other deaths can be seen from the destruction caused by Allied bombing, even if it's impossible to see the actual bodies today.
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