Table 1.
Per capita Canadian deaths (per 100,000 people) attributed to World War I, II, and the 1918 influenza pandemic compared to the counterfactual modelling scenario “no public health measures or vaccination” of Ogden et al. (5).
| Event | Deaths (People) | Period | Population (mid-Period) |
Death Rate
(per 100,000)* |
Refs. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World War I | 60,000 | 1914–1918 | 8,001,000 | 750 | 39,40 |
| 1918 influenza pandemic | 50,000 | 1918–1920 | 8,311,000 | 602 | 39,40 |
| World War II | 44,090 | 1939–1947 | 11,795,000 | 374 | 39,41 |
| Ogden et al. (5) counterfactual | 800,000† | 2020–2022 | N/A# | 2,034 (1,938–2,115)‡ |
5 |
*Death Rate = (Deaths / Population) × 100,000;†Upper limit of mortality count for the “no public health measures or vaccination” scenario taken from Table 1 in Ogden et al. (5); #Ogden et al. do not provide an estimate of the Canadian population in their article;‡Median (95th percentiles) per capita death rate for 100 model realisations taken from Table 3 in Ogden et al. (5).