Date | Pandemic name | Death toll | |
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430 BC | The plague of Athens | 25% of population | |
1347–1351 | Black death | 200M | |
1520-onward | New world smallpox | 56M | |
1885 | Third plague | 12M | |
1918–1919 | Spanish flu | 40–50M | |
1981–present | AIDS | 25–35M | |
2009–2010 | Swine flu | 200K | |
2019–present | COVID-19 | >0.5M |
Source: Extracted from The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), United States National Library of Medicine (NLM). Visit the site for a complete and detailed version of the pandemics-timeline.