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[Independence Day] How many people survived the war?

The general talks about "Forces are at 15%" or so.  I was wondering how many people lived through the alien onslaught?
gpt
To be honest... we only see the City Destroyers fire once, at the 36 most 'important' cities on the planet. Even if we calculate based on the largest cities (which we know it can't be, because Washington doesn't even make the top 100) then you're still looking at only about 400 million dead. Or about 5% of the global population. 

Which would seem to imply that the majority of losses would have, in fact, come from the absolutely disastrous global counter-attack after the initial strike.