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List of wars by death toll

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This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by the war. These numbers usually include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of battle or other military wartime actions, as well as the wartime/war-related deaths of soldiers which are the results of war-induced epidemics, famines, atrocities, genocide, etc.

Wars with greater than 2.5 million deaths

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Types of war
Civil war
Colonial war
Proxy war
Religious war
War of conquest
War of liberation
World war

Wars in excess of 2.5 million deaths

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No. War Date Combatants Location Death toll
Low est. High est.
1

Second World War

1939 – 1945 Worldwide 55,000,000[1] 85,000,000[2]
2

Ming-Qing War

1618 – 1683 China 25,000,000[3] 25,000,000[4]
3

Taiping Rebellion

1851 – 1864 China 20,000,000[5] 70,000,000[6]
4

Conquests of Genghis Khan

1206 – 1227 Eurasia 18,500,000[7] 37,750,000[8]
5

Second Sino-Japanese War

1937 – 1945 China 15,000,000[9] 20,000,000[10]
6

First World War

1914 – 1918 Worldwide 15,000,000 22,000,000
7

An–Shi Disturbances

755 – 763 China 13,000,000 36,000,000
8

Conquests of Timur

1370 – 1405 Timurid Empire Timurid Empire
Eurasia 12,000,000 17,000,000
9

Xin-Han interregnum

21 – 37 China 10,000,000 10,000,000
10

Dungan Revolt

1862 – 1877 China 8,000,000 20,000,000
11

Chinese Civil War

1927 – 1949 China 8,000,000 11,692,000
12

Red Turban Rebellions

1350 – 1368


China 7,500,000 7,500,000
13

Russian Civil War

1917 – 1923 Eurasia 7,000,000 12,500,000
14

Mughal–Maratha Wars

1658 – 1707 South Asia 5,000,000 5,000,000
15

Mahdist War

1881 – 1899 Northeast Africa 5,000,000 5,000,000
16

Thirty Years' War

1618 – 1648

Central Europe 4,000,000 8,500,000
17

Napoleonic Wars

1803 – 1815

Worldwide 3,500,000 7,000,000
18

Korean War

1950 – 1953 Korea 3,000,000 3,500,000
19

Deluge

1648 – 1666 Poland 3,000,000 3,000,000
20

Second Congo War

1998 – 2003

  • Anti-DR Congo rebels and allies
    • Rwandan-aligned rebels
    • Ugandan-aligned rebels
    • Anti-Angolan rebels
    • Foreign support:
Central Africa 2,500,000[11] 5,400,000[12]

Citations

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  1. ^ Hunt 2010, p. 551.
  2. ^ Vergun 2020.
  3. ^ Nolan 2004, p. 74.
  4. ^ McEvedy & Jones 1978, p. 173.
  5. ^ Platt 2012, p. xxxiii.
  6. ^ Wasserstrom 2016, p. 64.
  7. ^ Curtin 1908, p. 141.
  8. ^ White 2012, p. 578.
  9. ^ He 1959, p. 252.
  10. ^ Coble 2010, p. 436.
  11. ^ Marysse 2003, p. 73.
  12. ^ Coghlan et al. 2006, p. 44.

References

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Bibliography

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Academic journals

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  • Coble, Parks M. (2010). "The Legacy of China's Wartime Reporting, 1937–1945: Can the Past Serve the Present?". Modern China. 36 (4): 435–460. ISSN 0097-7004. JSTOR 2569943.
  • Marysse, S (June 2003). "Regress and War: The Case of the DRCongo". The European Journal of Development Research. 15 (1): 73–98. doi:10.1080/09578810312331287385. ISSN 0957-8811.
  • Coghlan, Benjamin; Brennan, Richard; Ngoy, Pascal; Dofara, David; Otto, Brad; Clements, Mark; Stewart, Tony (January 2006). "Mortality in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a nationwide survey" (PDF). Lancet. 367 (9504): 44–51. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)67923-3. PMID 16399152. S2CID 2400082. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2011.

Publications

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Websites

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Translations of ancient sources

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Other sources

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