70% of the forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) were dispatched to Korea as the Chinese People's Volunteers (accumulated to 2.97 million) and with more than 600,000 civil workers.
Total deaths: 148,000
-114,000 died in combats, incidents, and winterkill
-21,000 died after being hospitalized
-13,000 died from diseases
-380,000 were wounded
There were also 29,000 missing, including 21,400 POWs, of whom 14,000 were sent to Taiwan, 7,110 were repatriated.
China spent 6.2 billion yuan in the war and owed US$1.3 billion to the USSR.
KOREA:
-290,000 casualties
-90,000 POWs.
Figures for casualties in North Korea are not available.
UNITED STATES:
-1.17 million troops sent to Korea
-33,000 were killed
-108,000 wounded
-3,700 captured.
- 53,000 died due to getting killed or in hospitals
-US$20 billion directly in the war.
-US$64 billion in total including war preparation and aid for South Korea.
Note that this was in 1953, "converting" the value now, it would be around $535 billion dollars.
We can see from these figures, that the US's expenditure was very high for the war, and this money was not that worth it as they really did not manage to win the war. The large armies sent from the US and China also showed us the magnitude of the war, it became on a much larger scale, if there was no intervention.
-Valerie.
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