Based on historical estimates of world population this article uses statistics that would have been published prior to the 1850s, for convenience the above supplied information has been placed into the table below?

Population of the World's Dead
of People Born Between 0AD and c1850

Cause of Death & Number of Dead (in billions)

• War = 9.00

• Famine and Pestilence = 7.93

• Martyrdom = 0.50

• Intoxicating Drinks = 0.58

• Natural death or otherwise (other causes of death) = 13.00

Total = 31.01 billion

POPULATION OF THE WORLD’S DEAD. 

– There are millions in the grave and hundreds out of it. From extensive calculation it seems the average of human births per second since the birth of Christ to this time, is about 815, which gives 32,000,000,000; and after deduction the present supposed population of the world (960,000,000) leaves the number of thirty-one thousand and forty millions what had gone down to the grave – giving death and the grave the victory over the living to the number of thirty thousand and eight millions. Of this the number in the grave had died – by war, about nine thousand millions; by famine and pestilence, seven thousand nine hundred and thirty millions; by martyrdom, five hundred millions; by intoxicating drinks, five hundred and eighty millions; natural or otherwise, thirteen thousand millions.