Chapter 970： high risk (1/2)
Insider trading on the stage and behind the scenes continues, and the casualty report of the European War is finally released. There is no doubt that both sides in the war suffered heavy losses, and the tragic war was the worst in history.
According to statistics from the Vienna government, the war directly caused the population of the European continent to drop by more than 12 million. Except for the more than four million immigrants who left, the rest were killed in war.
Statistical data:
Among them, 2.377 million soldiers of the Anti-French Alliance were killed and 1.92 million civilians died. The specific data are as follows:
Austria: 742,000 soldiers died and 28,000 civilians died; (including the colonial war)
German Federation: 582,000 soldiers died and 587,000 civilians died;
Belgium: 273,000 soldiers died and 556,000 civilians died;
Spain: 21,000 soldiers died in action; (civilian deaths are ignored)
Switzerland: 6,000 soldiers died in action; (civilian deaths are ignored)
Kingdom of Sardinia: 176,000 soldiers died and 465,000 civilians died; (including guerrillas and local rebels)
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France: 3.206 million soldiers were killed in action, of which 1.368 million were killed in the colonial army, 417,000 were killed in Italian soldiers, 1.421 million were killed in local soldiers, and 886,000 were civilians. (Including civil war)
Looking at the cold data in his hands, Franz sighed. Except for the slightly shorter duration, the fierceness of the war did not weaken the original time and space.
Especially the number of civilian casualties is far more than the original time and space. In addition to the wide spread of the war zone, it was more importantly caused by the expulsion.
Even if the Vienna government took the first rescue operation, it failed to reduce the mortality rate much.
The old, weak, sick and disabled cannot withstand the toss. Many people who are not strong enough have fallen on the way to fleeing, and there is no time to receive help.
The statistics are only the number of civilian deaths in Europe. If we count the number of civilian deaths in the colonies, the final figure may double.
The death toll is so high, not to mention the casualties. Because the number of casualties can be accumulated and repeated statistics are prone to appear, it is impossible to be accurate anyway, and the Vienna government is too lazy to spend this time.
After a long time, Franz said with emotion: ”From the current situation, France is basically a waste! If there are no accidents, they will not want to regain their vitality in 30 years.”
No matter how you look at it, the current situation of the French is worse than the original time and space.
Although they suffered heavy losses in the First World War in the original time and space, France was a victorious country and won the war dividends, and neither the colony nor the mainland lost.
Now it's different. Not only did they suffer heavy losses, but they also lost all their net worth. The next thing to wait for them is a long debt-payment career.
Even if it wants to imitate Germany and rebirth, France does not have the capital for revival. Needless to say, the domestic collapsed economy, the more important thing is that they don't even have a rejuvenated population.
As the protagonist of the European War, France's population loss was not small. More than two million people died directly, and it is estimated that the number of disabled people will not be much lower than this. With the addition of immigrants leaving, this number is even greater.
Based on empirical estimation, Franz can conclude that there is a fault in the labor force in France, especially the sharp shortage of male labor force.
These problems cannot be solved. For a long time in the future, the population of France will fall into negative growth.
This point, just look at the Russian next door. It was originally the country with the largest birth rate in Europe, but after several wars, the birth rate dropped rapidly and even experienced a negative growth for a while.
Teddy bears can recover in just a few years. That is because the Russians are highly motivated to give birth, and the French people are not keen on creating people.
If the economy fails, it is estimated that the post-war birth rate in France will hit a record low.
The population growth rate of France after World War I is very informative, and it has increased by more than one million people in 20 years. After excluding the population growth caused by immigration, the population growth rate of France is directly negative.
In the era of Industry 2.0, if there is a shortage of labor, don't think about anything. Austria's ability to become the world's number one economic power depends on a population far surpassing its competitors.
If Austria, like France, had fallen into a population bottleneck in the nineteenth century, no matter how hard Franz worked, he would not be able to create a great empire.