Death Tolls of War

[Ravyn]

[ It should be noted that the numbers killed prior to the nineteenth century are unreliable and in most cases exagerated. ]

Wars
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45,000,000–68,000,000 - World War II (1937–1945)
30,000,000–60,000,000 - Mongol Conquests (13th century)
33,000,000–36,000,000 - An Lushan Rebellion (756–763)
25,000,000–Manchu Conquest of Ming China (1616–1644)
20,000,000–50,000,000 - Taiping Rebellion (1851–1864)
15,000,000–66,000,000 - World War I (1914–1918)
17,000,000 - Timur Lenk's conquests (1370–1405)
10,000,000+ - Sino-Japanese War (1931–1942)
5,000,000–9,000,000 - Russian Civil War (1917–1921)
3,000,000–8,000,000 - Thirty Years War (1618–1648)
1,300,000–6,100,000 - Chinese Civil War (1928–1949) note that this figure excludes World War II casualties
300,000–3,100,000 before 1937
1,000,000–3,000,000 after World War II
3,500,000–6,000,000 - Napoleonic Wars (1804–1815)
3,800,000 - Second Congo War (1998–2004)
2,500,000–3,500,000 - Korean War (1950–1953)
2,300,000–3,100,000 - Vietnam War (entire war 1945–1975)
300,000–1,300,000 - First Indochina War (1945–1954)
100,000–300,000 - Vietnamese Civil War (1954–1960)
1,750,000–2,100,000 - American phase (1960–1973)
170,000 - Final phase (1973–1975)
175,000–1,150,000 - Secret War (1962–1975)
2,000,000–4,000,000 - French Wars of Religion (1562–1598)
300,000–3,000,000 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and Bangladesh Liberation War
1,500,000–2,000,000 - Afghanistan (1979–2001)
1,000,000–1,500,000 Soviet intervention (1979–1989)
300,000–2,000,000 - Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)
230,000–1,400,000 - Ethiopian Civil War (1974–1991)
1,000,000–1,200,000 - Seven Years' War (1756–1763)
1,000,000 - Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988)
1,000,000 - Sudanese Civil War (1983–2002)
1,000,000 - Biafran War (1967–1970)
1,000,000 - Aztec conquests (1427–1519)
100,000–1,000,000 - Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962)
900,000–1,000,000 - Mozambique Civil War (1976–1993)
800,000 - Congo Civil War (1991–1997)
558,052 - American Civil War (1861–1865)
550,000 - Somalian Civil War (1988 - )
500,000 - Angolan Civil War (1975–2002)
500,000 - Ugandan Civil War (1979–1986)
400,000–1,000,000 - War of the Triple Alliance in Paraguay (1864–1870)
360,000–1,000,000 - Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
300,000 - First Burundi Civil War (1972)
270,000–300,000 - Crimean War (1854–1856)
220,000 - Liberian Civil War (1989 - )
200,000–800,000 - Warlord era in China (1917–1928)
200,000 - Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2000)
200,000 - Guatemaltec Civil War (1960–1996)
190,000 - Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)
150,000 - North Yemen Civil War (1962–1970)
150,000 - Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)
100,500 - Chaco War (1932–1935)
100,000 - Gulf War (1991)
30,000–100,000 - American led invasion and occupation of Iraq (2003 - )
75,000 - Ethiopia–Eritrea War (1998–2000)
75,000 - Second Boer War (1898–1902)
35,000 - Finnish Civil War (1918)
30,000 - Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
13,000 - South Yemen Civil War (1986)
7,000 - Kosovo War (1996–1999) (disputed)
5,000 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974)
3,000 - Northern Ireland conflict. 1969 - 1998
3,000 - Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire (2002 - )
2,000 - Football War (1969)
1,500 - Romanian Revolution (December 1989)
1,000 - Zapatista uprising in Chiapas (1994)
1,000 - Falklands War (1982)
537–3,000 - Operation Just Cause (Panama, 1989)




Individual battles and sieges
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800,000–1,600,000 - Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943)
670,000–1,500,000 - Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)
700,000 - Battle of Moscow (1941–1942)
400,000–680,000 - Battle of Kiev (1941)
500,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1941)
370,000 - Battle of Voronezh (1942)
370,000 - Battle of Belarus (1941)
175,000–350,000 - Operation Bagration (1944)
230,000–350,000 - Battle of Kursk (1943)
300,000 - Battle of the Somme (1916)
270,000 - Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive (1942)
270,000 - Battle of West Ukraine (1944)
260,000 - Battle of Verdun (1916)
260,000 - Battle of the Caucasus (1942)
165,000–300,000 Battle of Chalons (451)
230,000 - Battle of Berlin (1945)
200,000 - Siege of Tenochtitlan (1520–1521)
190,000 - Battle of West Ukraine (1941)
180,000 - Battle of France (1940)
170,000 - Battle of the Lower Dnieper (1943)
170,000 - Battle of Königsberg (1945)
150,000 - Battle of Rostov (1941)
150,000 - Battle of Okinawa (1945)
150,000 - Battle of Passchendaele (1917)
132,000 - Battle of Normandy (1944)
130,000 - Battle of Gallipoli (1916)
130,000 - Battle of Budapest (1945)
125,000 - Third Battle of Nanking (1864)
125,000 - Battle of Lemberg (1914)
115,000 - Battle of the Frontiers (1914)
100,000 - Battle of Chernikov-Poltava (1943)
100,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1943)
90,000 - Battle of the Aisne (1917)
83,000 - Battle of the Baltic (1941)
80,000 - Battle of the Somme (1918)
80,000 - Battle of the Marne (1918)
74,000 - Battle of Polyarnoe-Karelia (1941)
72,000+ - Battle of Belgorod (1943)
70,000 - Second Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945)
70,000 - Second Battle of Anchialus (917)
69,000 - Battle of Leyte (1944)
66,000 - Battle of Donbass (1943)
56,000–66,000 - Battle of Cannae (216 BC)
65,000 - Battle of Lvov-Sandomir (1944)
64,000 - Battle of the Aisne (1918)
62,000 - Battle of Artois (1915)
61,000 - Battle of the Baltic (1944)
60,000 - Battle of Basra (1985–1988)
60,000 - Battle of Monte Cassino (1944)
60,000 - Battle of Arras (1917)
60,000 - First Battle of Ypres (1914)
60,000 - Battle of Champagne (1915)
40,000–56,000 - Tet Offensive (1968)
55,000 - Korsun Pocket (1944)
55,000 - Battle of Voronezh (1943)
50,000 - Meuse-Argonne offensive (1918)
50,000 - Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo (1917)
50,000 - Battle of Hsuchow (1927)
30,000–50,000 - Battle of Naissus (268)
45,000 - Fourth Battle of Kharkov (1943)
44,000 - Battle of the Crimea (1944)
42,000 - Battle of the Seelow Heights (1945)
40,000 - Battle of Imphal
38,000 - Battle of the Bulge (1944–1945)
37,000 - Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
36,500 - Battle of the Ebro (1938)
35,000 - Battle of Mukden (1905)
32,000 - Battle of Lepanto (1571)
31,000 - Battle of Thapsus (46 BC)
31,000 - Battle of Taierzhuang (1937)
30,000 - Battle of Saipan (1944)
30,000 - Battle of Konotop (1659)
30,000 - Battle of Marignan (1515)
30,000 - Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9)
20,000–30,000 - Battle of Munda (45 BC)
29,000 - Battle of Iwo Jima (1945)
25,000 - Battle of Pydna (168 BC)
26,000 - Katyn Massacre (1940)
22,500 - Battle of Leipzig (1813)
20,000 - Battle of the Trebia (218 BC)
18,500 - Battle of Borodino (1812)
16,500 - Battle of Halhin Gol (1939)
15,000 - Battle of Lake Trasimene (217 BC)
14,000 - Battle of Waterloo (1815)
11,000 - Battle of Heraclea (180 BC)
11,000 - Siege of Petersburg, Virginia (1864–1865)
7,000–11,000 - Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC)
10,500 - Battle of Asculum (279 BC)
10,360 - Battle of Mons Graupius (83 or 84)
10,000 - Battle of the Metaurus (207 BC)
10,000 - Battle of Celaya (1913)
8,700 - Battle of Cynoscephalae (197 BC)
7,058 - Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
6,592 - Battle of Marathon (490 BC)
5,350+ - Battle of Suomussalmi (1939–1940)
5,000+ - Battle of Dara (530)
5,000+ - Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
4,808 - Battle of Antietam (1862)
4,360 - Battle of Chickamauga (1863)
4,329 - Battle of Isandlwana (1879)
4,175 - Battle of Leuthen (1757)
3,477 - Battle of Shiloh (1862)
3,205 - Second Battle of Bull Run (1862)
200–2,850 - Battle for Fallujah (November 8–November 14, 2004)
2,800 - Battle of Midway (1942)
2,400 - La Noche Triste (1520)
2,000+ - Battle of Manzikert (1071)
1,705 - Battle of Cold Harbor (June 1-3, 1864)
1,700 - Battle of Vicksburg (1863)
1,000+ - Battle of Dyrrhachium (48 BC)
868 - First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861)
622 - Jamestown Massacre (1622)
567 - Battle of Rorke's Drift (1879)
495 - Battle of Monongahela (1755)
383 - Battle of the Alamo (1836)
366 - Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)
350 - Battle of Spion Kop (1900)
302 - Battle of Little Bighorn (1876)




Genocide and Democide
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2,000,000–100,000,000 - Destruction of Native Americans (after 1492) The long-term decimation, sometimes by government policy and sometimes not, of the Natives of South and North America by Europeans is estimated to be one of the largest and longest in history. The numbers are controversial.
6,000,000–60,000,000 - African and Atlantic slave trade (16th - 19th century)
3,500,000–60,000,000 - Great Purge (Soviet Union, 1930s) (Probably 26,000,000)
250,000–20,000,000 - Cultural Revolution (China, 1966 - 1976 most estimates are around 1 to 2 million)
11,000,000–19,000,000 - Slave trade in Islamic World over 1200 years (7th - 19th century)
5,000,000–12,000,000 - Nazi internments and Holocaust in Europe
6,000,000 - Jews
2,600,000–4,000,000 Soviet POWs
1,000,000+ - Political prisoners
250,000–1,000,000 Roma
70,000–275,000 Handicapped
10,000–220,000 Homosexuals
5,000,000–10,000,000 - Congo Free State, (1877 - 1908)
1,000,000–3,000,000 Armenian Massacres (1895-1923) Heavily Disputed. Most cited number is 1.5 million. The Turkish government denies the genocide and accuses the Armenians of killing Turks instead
30,000–300,000 - Hamidian (First Armenian) Massacre (1895-1896)
6,000–30,000 - 1909
600,000–2,000,000 - Second Armenian Massacre (1915-1918)
250,000–500,0000 - (1919-1923)
1,700,000 - Pol Pot's communalisation program (Cambodia, 1976-1979)
500,000–1,500,000 - Degars killed in Vietnam, (Vietnam,1975 - present)
800,000–1,000,000 - Partition of India and Pakistan, (1947-1948)
250,000–1,000,000 - Massacre of alleged communists, (Indonesia, 1965-1966)
800,000 - Genocide in Rwanda (Rwanda, 1994)
300,000 - Idi Amin's dictatorship (Uganda, 1971-1979)
220,000 - Massacre of the Helvetii (58 BC)
260,000 - Greeks killed in Asia Minor (Turkey, 1912 - 1923)
182,000 - Al-Anfal Campaign (Iraq, 1986-1989)
40,000–100,000 - Herero massacre, (Namibia, 1904-1908)
30,000 - Dictatorship of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, (Haiti, 1964 - 1971)
10,000–30,000 Argentina's Dirty War, (Argentina, 1976 - 1983)
18,000 - Duke_of_Alba (Spanish Netherlands, 1567-1573)
15,000–18,000 - Dictatorship of Fidel Castro, (Cuba, 1959 - present)
3,000 - Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (Chile, 1973 - 1990)





Individual massacres, air raids, and concentration camps
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1,100,000 - Auschwitz concentration camp
700,000–1,000,000 - Treblinka extermination camp
500,000–900,000 - 1938 Huang He flood, caused by sabotage in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1938)
250,000–800,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Hulagu Khan (1258)
50,000–350,000 - Rape of Nanking (1937)
260,000 Sobibór extermination camp
66,000–237,062 - Hiroshima Bombing (Japan, 1945)
39,000–108,000 - Nagasaki Bombing (Japan, 1945)
100,000 - Manila Massacre (Manila, Philippines, 1945)
60,000–100,000 - Sack of Jerusalem, First Crusade (1099)
70,000 - Sack of Merv by Genghis Khan (1221)
70,000 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (France, 1572)
30,000–40,000 - massacred in Novgorod by Ivan the Terible
30,000 - Babi Yar Yom Kippur Jewish Massacre (Kiev, Ukraine, 1941)
10,000–30,000 228 Incident, (Taiwan, 1947)
25,000–60,000 Bombing of Dresden in World War II, (Germany,1945)
25,000 - Sack of Magdeburg (Thirty Years War, Germany, 1631)
20,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Timur (1401)
20,000 - Massacre of Praga (Poland, 1794)
14,000 - Haitians massacred by Rafael Leónidas Trujillo's government. (Dominican Republic, 1937)
12,000 - La matanza (El Salvador, 1931)
10,000 - sack of Béziers (Albigensian Crusade, France, 1209)
5,000–12,000 - Massacre of Indians and Arabs in Zanzibar (Zanzibar, 1964)
7,000 - massacre in Thessalonika by Theodosius I (Byzantine Empire, 390)
7,000 - Zulus killed at the death of Nandi, mother of Shaka (1827)
5,000–7,000 - Halabja poison gas attack (Halabjah, Iraq, 1988)
328–5,500 - Sabra and Shatila Massacre (Lebanon, 1982)
1,645 - Guernica (1937)
379–1,000 - Jallianwala Bagh Massacre (Amritsar, India, 1919)
900 - El Mozote Massacre (El Salvador, 1981)
347–504 - My Lai Massacre (Vietnam, 1968)
360 - Wyoming Valley Massacre (Pennsylvania, United States, 1778)
320 - Bloody Assizes (England, 1685)
300 - Weenen Massacre (Natal, South Africa, 1838)
300 - Wounded Knee Massacre (South Dakota, United States, 1890)
100–300 - Waterloo Creek Massacre (Australia, 1838)
268 - Plan de Sánchez massacre (Guatemala, 1982)
91–200 - Kristallnacht (Germany, 1938)
150 - Sand Creek Massacre (Colorado, United States, 1864)
120 - Mountain Meadows Massacre (Utah, United States, 1857)
113 - Waxhaw Massacre (South Carolina, United States, 1780)
78 - Massacre of Glencoe (1692)
67 - Hebron 1929 Massacre (Palestine, 1929)
45–60 Acteal massacre (Mexico, 1997)