how many people survived the titanic

About 706 people survived the sinking of the Titanic, out of roughly 2,200 passengers and crew on board.

Quick Scoop: Titanic Survivors

• Total people on board: about 2,200 (exact counts vary slightly by source).

• Total survivors: about 706–707 people; most major historical references use 706.

• Passenger survivors: 492 passengers.

• Crew survivors: 214 crew members.

• Overall survival rate: roughly one-third of everyone on board.

Who was more likely to survive?

• Women and children, especially in first and second class, had higher survival rates due to the “women and children first” practice in loading lifeboats.

• Third-class passengers and crew suffered the highest losses; only a small fraction of third-class passengers survived.

Small human snapshot

The youngest survivor was baby Millvina Dean, just about 9 weeks old at the time, who later became the last living survivor and died in 2009 at age 97.

TL;DR: Around 706 people survived the Titanic disaster, meaning roughly two out of every three people on board did not make it.

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