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Black Death number of deaths is too large
The number 200 million seems too large. Estimates of the world's population before the Blak Deatyh were about 400 million, and the Black death didn't reach China and India, it reached mainly Europe and the Middle East.

The reference backing up this number are weak, one is from an Australian news feed, the other is a research paper that gives no expolanation or how it was obtained. This should be fixed.

The number of deaths in the article "Black Deaths" is 75 to 200 million. Is this correct? It looks too high. I checked through the references, the only one that mentions 200 million was Deleo & Hinnebusch 2005, pp. 927–28. However this article just states this number and doesn't give any reference to how it was calculated. Benedictow estimated 60% of Europes population died, but the population of the whole world was around 400 million. Even then Bennedictow estimated only 50 million deaths in Europe. Others have estimated 25 million to 50 million. Perhaps also accounting for northern Africa and western Asia death toll wouldn't be more than 75 million. Soo, I think 200 million is far too high. Perhaps Deleo & Hinnebusch used 50% of the worlds population (they didn't say) but the Black death didn't reach the whole world's population. Reference: Benedictow https://www.historytoday.com/archive/black-death-greatest-catastrophe-ever GlennFulford (talk) 02:22, 12 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Further references:
 * Benedictow claims the death toll for Europe was around 50 million. He does not include Asia or Africa.
 * Benedictow claims the death toll for Europe was around 50 million. He does not include Asia or Africa.




 * Tikhomirov et. al.(2011) claim an equal death toll in Asia/Africa as with Europe, wtih the numbers 25 million and 25 million. But there is no reference or backing up of this claim. GlennFulford (talk) 06:13, 16 May 2022 (UTC)