Fatalities due to flu pandemics in the United States

Estimated number of fatalities due to influenza pandemics in the United States

The data displays the estimated number of people who died in the U.S. during influenza pandemics. During the Spanish flu from 1918 to 1919 around 675,000 people in the United States were estimated to have died. More recently, around 12,469 people died from the swine flu or H1N1 pandemic in 2009.

Spanish flu (1918-1919) 675000
Asian flu (1957-1958) 116000
Hong Kong flu (1968-1969) 100000
Swine Flu/H1N1 (2009) 12469