Titanic Survivors: A Breakdown by Class

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• First Class Passengers: 63% survived (200 out of 319 lived).
• Second Class Passengers: 43% survived (117 out of 269 lived).
• Third Class Passengers: 25% survived (172 out of 699 lived).

Any death, regardless of class, is a horrible and tragic thing, but on the anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking it’s important to remember one of the things that night symbolizes: that, even in moments of terrible crisis and great collective peril, we remain divided and valued by the ticket we can afford. 

[Data via John Henderson of Ithaca College]

A great lesson told through numbers.