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List of wars by death toll
[edit]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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No. | War | Date | Combatants | Location | Death toll | |
Low est. | High est. | |||||
1 | 1939 – 1945 | Worldwide | 55,000,000[1] | 85,000,000[2] | ||
2 | 1618 – 1683 | China | 25,000,000[3] | 25,000,000[4] | ||
3 | 1851 – 1864 | China | 20,000,000[5] | 70,000,000[6] | ||
4 | 1206 – 1227 | Eurasia | 18,500,000[7] | 37,750,000[8] | ||
5 | 1937 – 1945 | China | 15,000,000[9] | 20,000,000[10] | ||
6 | 1914 – 1918 | Worldwide | 15,000,000 | 22,000,000 | ||
7 | 755 – 763 | China | 13,000,000 | 36,000,000 | ||
8 | 1370 – 1405 | Timurid Empire
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Eurasia | 12,000,000 | 17,000,000 | |
9 | 21 – 37 | China | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 | ||
10 | 1862 – 1877 |
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China | 8,000,000 | 20,000,000 | |
11 | 1927 – 1949 |
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China | 8,000,000 | 11,692,000 | |
12 | 1350 – 1368 |
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China | 7,500,000 | 7,500,000 | |
13 | 1917 – 1923 |
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Eurasia | 7,000,000 | 12,500,000 | |
14 | 1658 – 1707 | South Asia | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | ||
15 | 1881 – 1899 | Northeast Africa | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | ||
16 | 1618 – 1648 |
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Central Europe | 4,000,000 | 8,500,000 | |
17 | 1803 – 1815 |
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Worldwide | 3,500,000 | 7,000,000 | |
18 | 1950 – 1953 |
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Korea | 3,000,000 | 3,500,000 | |
19 | 1648 – 1666 | Poland | 3,000,000 | 3,000,000 | ||
20 | 1998 – 2003 | Central Africa | 2,500,000[11] | 5,400,000[12] |
Citations
[edit]- ^ Hunt 2010, p. 551.
- ^ Vergun 2020.
- ^ Nolan 2004, p. 74.
- ^ McEvedy & Jones 1978, p. 173.
- ^ Platt 2012, p. xxxiii.
- ^ Wasserstrom 2016, p. 64.
- ^ Curtin 1908, p. 141.
- ^ White 2012, p. 578.
- ^ He 1959, p. 252.
- ^ Coble 2010, p. 436.
- ^ Marysse 2003, p. 73.
- ^ Coghlan et al. 2006, p. 44.
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]Academic journals
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Curtin, Jeremiah (1908). "Chapter VIII". The Mongols: A History (1st ed.). Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 9780306812439. OCLC 1049691390 – via Internet Archive.
- He, Bingdi (1959). "X, Catastrophic Deterrents". Studies on the population of China, 1368-1953. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. LCCN 59012970 – via Internet Archive.
- Hunt, Nigel (2010). "9–Impact of War on Civilians: Health Consequences of War and Political Violence". In Fink, George (ed.). Stress of war, conflict and disaster. San Diego: Elsevier. ISBN 9780123813824. OCLC 671648506.
- McEvedy, Colin; Jones, Richard (1978). "Part 2–Asia: China". Atlas of World Population History (2nd ed.). Hammondsworth: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780713910315. OCLC 1028193722 – via Internet Archive.
- Nolan, Peter (2004). "Chapter 2–Which Direction?: Regime Change". China at the Crossroads (1st ed.). Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 978-0-7456-5761-5 – via Internet Archive.
- Platt, Stephen R. (2012). Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War. New York: Knopf. ISBN 9780307271730.
- Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. (2016). The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-968375-8.
- White, Matthew (2012). "Notes: Chinggis Khan". The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities (1st ed.). New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 9780393081923. OCLC 711051782.
Websites
[edit]- Vergun, David (14 August 2020). "Significant Events of World War II". defense.gov. US Department of Defense. Retrieved 27 January 2023.