German Casualties of the First World War
Source: Whalen, Robert (1984). Bitter Wounds: German Victims of the Great War: 1914-1939. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
| Dead | 2,037,000 |
| Wounded | 4,300,000 |
| Missing or Prisoner | 974,977 |
| TOTAL | 7,311,977 |
According to the official Army Medical Report, the estimated
numbers of cases treated by doctors during the war were:
| Wounded | Diseased | Total | |
| 1914/15 | 1,579,023 | 4,513,215 | 6,092,238 |
| 1915/16 | 1,398,281 | 5,706,370 | 7,104,651 |
| 1916/17 | 1,303,322 | 5,491,044 | 6,794,366 |
| 1917/18 | 1,406,311 | 5,787,674 | 7,193,985 |
| 1914-1918 | 5,686,937 | 21,498,303 | 27,185,240 |
533,000 widows and 1,192,000 orphans.