id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-848 War - Wikipedia .html text/html 11668 1449 66 For comparison, an estimated 1,680,000,000 people died from infectious diseases in the 20th century.[13] Nuclear warfare breaking out in August 1988, when nuclear arsenals were at peak level, and the aftermath thereof could have reduced the human population from 5,150,000,000 by 1,850,000,000 to 3,300,000,000 within a period of about one year, according to a projection that did not consider "the most severe predictions concerning nuclear winter".[14] This would have been a proportional reduction of the world's population exceeding the reduction caused in the 14th century by the Black Death, and comparable in proportional terms with the plague's impact on Europe's population in 1346–53. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-848.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-848.txt