WesWorld

Today I bought a book called "The Routledge atlas of the first world war" which has many very usefull maps on anything from political boundrys to offensive operations by both sides. Inside there is a list of total troop numbers mobilized for each respective world power in europe. Here they are....

Britain: 975,000
France: 4,017,000
Germany: 4,500,000 (at the outbreak of war)
Austria-Hungary: 3,000,000 (at the outbreak of war)
Russia: 5,971,000
Belgium: 117,000
Serbia: 200,000
Montenegro: 50,000
Rumania: 290,000(when they joined the war)
Bulgaria: 280,000(when they joined the war)
Portugal: 40,000(when they joined the war)
Greece: 230,000(when they joined the war)
Turkey: 210,000(when they joined the war)
Italy: 1,251,000(when they joined the war)

No data on non-European nations ?

Walter

...I don't have any troop numbers for japan..as far as i can tell thier effort in the war was strictly naval. I do have WW2 numbers for total population for japan in WW2, 72,200,000. How many troops they could mobilize in WW1 is another issue however and I'm afraid I can't find any info on that.

I found this after a breif search on google

A = Country

B = Population (millions)

C = Income (per capita)

D = Army (000s)

E = Combat Aircraft

F = Capital Ships

G = Subs


A ,B, C, D, E, F, G
France ,41.6 ,$248, 800, 735, 96, 59
Germany 68.4, $487, 800, 2765, 28, 46
Italy 43.8, $157, 800, 1500, 137, 104
Japan 70.6,$81, 320, 1980, 155, 57
Poland 34.7, $92, 290, 390, 4, 5
UK 47.7, $498, 220, 1144, 277, 38
USA 129.8, $520, 190, 800, 261, 95
USSR 167.3, $188, 1700, 5000, 65, 150

EOM

Looking at...

http://www.library.uu.nl/wesp/populstat/populhome.html

I get the impression that the data is from about 1938.

And from

http://www.killeenroos.com/link/ww1.html#key

I got this link to army size data:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWarmies1914.htm

Walter

Quoted

I get the impression that the data is from about 1938

That tracks, since the Soviet Army dropped to about 600,000 right after the Civil War, but grew starting about 1934, getting to 1.7 million by 1938

Nice find rooijin, those army numbers differ slightly from the ones in my sorces which seem to be inconsistant. The numbers in the third link are more consistant and show all the world powers strength before the war and total mobilized armys in the war.

cool data but please:

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Soviet Army

sounds to me like chalk on blackboard. Trotskiy (sp?) must be turning in his grave. That's the "Red Army" pleeeaaase :-)

Bernhard

You mean Leon Trotsky ? The guy who was killed with a pick-axe in Mexico in 1940 by an agent of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti ?

Walter

yep, that's the one. he was the father of the red army and that's what that outfit was called all the way to the end of communism in Russia.