Wie hoch war die Zahl der Todesopfer durch Pandemien in der Geschichte? [OC]

**Data source:** the Our World in Data Historical Pandemics Database ([details and data here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q0e3xRdFGUi7VSiFGEZAv8QVYQq7YxCVISBkzllrEL0/))

**Tools used:** the OWID-Grapher and Figma

This data is not beautiful, the circles are not to scale.

It seems that the definition of pandemic is a bit elastic in your data.

Surely Ebola is not one? All outbreaks have been thankfully localised and short, in part due to the high lethality.

Does Colombian Exchange numbers includes mortality for war and slavery? The comment seems to indicate it, but that wouldn’t be correct either.