Black Death: Death Toll, History & Impact of the Great Plague

The Black Death (also known as the Great Plague or the Black Pestilence) was an 8-year-long pandemic of bubonic plague that swept across Eurasia from 1347 to 1355, peaking in Europe in the years 1348-1349. The pandemic is estimated to have caused the death of 75-200 million people in Eurasia and an estimated 75 million in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, peaking in the years 1348–1349.

- Between 1347 and 1351, about one third (over 20 million people) of the Europeans died.

- In Cairo alone, 200 people were dying each day.

- In Venice, 600 people were dying each day at one point.

- In England and France, between one third to one half of the population died.

- In 1348 to 1350 more than 1.2 million people died in Italy.