The Human Cost
2,800,000
disputed broad estimate
No accepted total combines battle deaths, raids, famine, epidemic disease, and demographic displacement across 116 years. In particular, Black Death mortality cannot be assigned to the war as a casualty total.
Each dot below represents 1,000 human lives. Scroll to watch the scale unfold.
Working allocation: 300,000 soldiers killed in combat, from wounds, or from disease. Each = 1,000 lives.
2,500,000 civilians killed — from violence, famine, disease, and displacement. Wars are not fought only by soldiers.
incl. 500 civilians
How Hundred Years''s dead compare to other conflicts and events.
500,000 dead
Military death figures are highly uncertain — medieval chronicles rarely distinguished between killed in action, wounded, and died of disease. Estimates for individual battles vary by factor of two or more between sources.
1,500,000 dead
The Black Death overlapped the war but was a transregional pandemic, not a war casualty category. The aggregate display is therefore a disputed demographic illustration rather than a count of deaths caused by the conflict.
2,500,000 dead
The war's 116-year span makes aggregate statistics difficult to compile. English casualties in France are especially poorly documented since most English dead were left on French soil without systematic record-keeping.