STATISTICS ABOUT THE BLACK DEATH
- In the Middle Ages, nearly 75 million were killed by the plague in western Europe.
- The plague epidemic killed an estimated 25–60% of Europeans.
- In the course of three years,18,000 people died in London.
- It is estimated that 100 to 200 million people died worldwide from the Black Death.
- By 1350, almost 1/3 of the world’s population had died.
- In the Middle Ages, the death rate for humans who caught the Bubonic Plague was 30-75%. The pneumonic plague killed 90-95% of its victims and the septicemic plague killed nearly 100% of the people it infected.