List of wars by death toll
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This list of wars by death toll includes death toll estimates of all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war. These numbers usually include both 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 civilians, which are the results of war-induced epidemics, diseases, famines, atrocities, genocide, etc.
Pre-Modern
Ancient wars
Ancient wars with greater than 10,000 deaths by death toll--
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War | Death range |
Geometric mean |
Date | Location | Notes |
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Three Kingdoms War | 36,000,000–40,000,000 | 37,947,332 | 184–280 | China | [1][2] – Academically, the period of the Three Kingdoms refers to the period between the foundation of the state of Wei in 220 and the conquest of the state of Wu by the Jin dynasty in 280. The earlier, "unofficial" part of the period, from 184 to 220, was marked by chaotic infighting between warlords in various parts of China. |
Germanic Wars | 15,450,000+ | 15,450,000 | 113–596 | Europe | Number given is lowest estimate of all deaths recorded in conflicts between Roman and Germanic peoples in this time period. Due to a lack of recording of deaths, the actual number caused by these conflicts is likely much greater. |
Yellow Turban Rebellion | 3,000,000–7,000,000 | 4,582,576 | 184–205 | China | – Part of Three Kingdoms War |
Punic Wars | 1,250,000–1,850,000 | 1,520,691 | 264 BC–146 BC | Western Europe / North Africa | |
Jewish–Roman Wars | 350,000–2,000,000 | 836,660 | 66–136 | Europe / Middle East | |
Second Punic War | 770,000+ | 770,000 | 218 BC–201 BC | Western Europe / North Africa | [3] – Part of the Punic Wars |
Qin's Wars of Unification | 700,000+ | 700,000 | 230 BC–221 BC | China | – Part of Warring States Period |
Gallic Wars | 400,000–1,000,000 | 632,456 | 58 BC–50 BC | France | |
First Jewish–Roman War | 270,000–1,358,400 | 605,614 | 66–73 | Middle East | – Part of Jewish–Roman Wars |
Cimbrian War | 410,000–650,000 | 516,236 | 113 BC–101 BC | Western Europe | – Part of the Germanic Wars |
Bar Kokhba Revolt | 400,000–580,000 | 481,664 | 132–136 | Middle East | – Also known as the Third Jewish–Roman War
– Part of Jewish–Roman Wars |
Kitos War | 440,000+ | 440,000 | 115–117 | Southern Europe / North Africa | – Also known as the Second Jewish–Roman War
– Part of Jewish–Roman Wars |
Probus's German War | 400,000+ | 400,000 | 277 | Europe | Emperor Probus informed the Senate that he had killed 400,000 Germans. From the Historia Augusta. – Part of the Germanic Wars |
Gothic War (269) | 320,000+ | 320,000 | 269 | Europe | Claudius II defeated the Goths, of whom 320,000 were slain. This number is from the Historia Augusta. – Part of the Germanic Wars |
Third Punic War | 150,000–250,000 | 193,649 | 149 BC–146 BC | Tunisia | – Part of the Punic Wars |
First Punic War | 185,000+ | 185,000 | 264 BC–241 BC | Southern Europe / North Africa | – Part of the Punic Wars |
Kalinga War | 150,000–200,000 | 173,205 | 262 BC–261 BC | India | |
Hunnic Invasions | 165,000+ | 165,000 | 395–453 | Europe | Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded by Roman writers during this time period, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. |
Wars of the Sixteen Kingdoms | 150,000+ | 150,000 | 304–439 | Northern China | Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded in this time period in battles between armies of the Sixteen Kingdoms, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. |
Wars of Alexander the Great | 142,000+ | 142,000 | 336 BC–323 BC | Middle East / North Africa / Central Asia / India | Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle during these wars recorded by Greek writers, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. |
Conquests of Cyrus the Great | 100,000+ | 100,000 | 549 BC– 530 BC | Middle East | Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded by writers during this time period, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. |
Roman Conquest of Britain | 90,000+ | 90,000 | 43–96 | Great Britain | Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded by Roman writers during this time period, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. |
Iceni Revolt | 80,000+ | 80,000 | 60–61 | England | Year is uncertain – Part of Roman Conquest of Britain |
Greco–Persian Wars | 73,800+ | 73,800 | 499 BC–449 BC | Greece | |
Gothic War (376–382) | 40,000+ | 40,000 | 376–382 | Eastern Europe | – Part of the Germanic Wars |
Samnite Wars | 33,500+ | 33,500 | 343 BC–290 BC | Italy | Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded by Roman writers during this time period, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. |
Medieval wars
Medieval wars with greater than 10,000 deaths by death toll
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The identity of a single "war" cannot be reliably given in some cases, and some "wars" can be taken to last over more than a human lifetime, e.g. "Reconquista" (711–1492, 781 years) "Muslim conquests in India" (12th to 16th c., 500 years) "Crusades" (ten or more campaigns during the period 1095–1291, 196 years), "Mongol conquests" (1206–1368, 162 years), "early Muslim conquests" (622–750, 128 years), "Hundred Year's War" (1337–1453, 115 years).
War | Death range |
Geometric mean[clarification needed] |
Date | Location | Notes |
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Mongol conquests | 30,000,000–40,000,000 | 34,641,016 | 1206–1368 | Eurasia | [4][5][6] – Excludes the (up to) 200,000,000 deaths from the Black Death migration that arguably may have been associated with the Mongol expansion |
An Lushan Rebellion | 13,000,000–36,000,000 | 21,633,308 | 755–763 | China / Vietnam | [7] – Also known as the An–Shi Rebellion |
Conquests of Timur | 8,000,000–20,000,000 | 12,649,111 | 1370–1405 | Eurasia | [8][9] |
Reconquista | 7,000,000+ | 7,000,000 | 711–1492 | Iberian Peninsula | [10] |
Moorish Wars | 5,000,000+ | 5,000,000 | 534–548 | North Africa | |
Hundred Years' War | 2,300,000–3,300,000 | 2,754,995 | 1337–1453 | Western Europe | [11] |
Crusades | 1,000,000–3,000,000 | 1,732,051 | 1095–1291 | Europe / Middle East ("Holy Land") | [12] |
Conquests of Mehmed II 'the Conqueror' | 873,000+ | 873,000 | 1451–1481 | Eastern Europe | [13] May be over or underestimated |
Albigensian Crusade | 200,000–1,000,000 | 447,214 | 1208–1229 | France | [14][15] – Also known as the Cathar Crusade
– Part of the Crusades |
Arab–Byzantine Wars | 130,000+ | 130,000 | 629–1050 | Middle East / North Africa / Southern Europe | Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded by writers during this time period, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. |
Wars of Scottish Independence | 60,000-150,000 | 94,868 | 1296–1357 | Scotland / England | |
Goryeo–Khitan Wars | 90,000+ | 90,000 | 993–1019 | Korea | [16] |
Wars of the Roses | 35,000–50,000 | 41,833 | 1455–1487 | England / Wales | [17][better source needed][18] |
Modern
Modern wars with greater than 10,000 deaths by death toll
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War | Death range |
Geometric mean |
Date | Location | Notes |
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Taiping Rebellion | 20,000,000–100,000,000 | 44,721,360 | 1850–1864 | China | [19][20][21] – Also known as the Taiping Civil War |
World War II | 15,843,000–85,000,000 | 36,696,798 | 1939–1945 | Worldwide | [22] |
Qing conquest of the Ming | 25,000,000+ | 25,000,000 | 1616–1662 | China | [23] – Also known as the Ming–Qing transition |
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire | 24,300,000+ | 24,300,000 | 1519–1632 | Mexico | [24] – Part of the European colonization of the Americas, includes the cocoliztli plagues |
Second Sino-Japanese War | 20,000,000–25,000,000 | 22,360,680 | 1937–1945 | China | [25] – Part of World War II |
World War I | 8,545,800-21,000,000 | 13,396,335 | 1914–1918 | Worldwide | [22] – Also known as the Great War |
Dungan Revolt | 8,000,000–12,000,000 | 9,797,959 | 1862–1877 | China | – Also known as the Tongzhi Hui Revolt |
Chinese Civil War | 8,000,000–11,692,000 | 9,671,401 | 1927–1949 | China | [26] |
Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire | 8,400,000+ | 8,400,000 | 1533–1572 | Peru | [24] – Part of the European colonization of the Americas, includes deaths due to European diseases |
Russian Civil War | 5,000,000–9,000,000 | 6,708,204 | 1917–1922 | Russia | [27] |
Thirty Years' War | 3,000,000–11,500,000 | 5,873,670 | 1618–1648 | Europe | [28] |
Ottoman wars in Europe | 5,500,000+ | 5,500,000 | 1821–1921 | Eastern Europe | Justin McCarthy claims that 5.5 million Ottoman Muslims were killed by various Christian oppressors in the last century of the Ottoman Empire. |
Napoleonic Wars | 3,500,000–7,000,000 | 4,949,747 | 1803–1815 | Worldwide | See: Napoleonic Wars casualties |
Mughal–Maratha Wars | 4,600,000+ | 4,600,000 | 1658-1707 | India | [29][30] |
Second Congo War | 2,500,000–5,400,000 | 3,674,235 | 1998–2003 | Central Africa | [31][32][33][34] – Also known as the Great War of Africa |
French Wars of Religion | 2,000,000–4,000,000 | 2,828,427 | 1562–1598 | France | [35] – Also known as the Huguenot Wars |
Indian Rebellion of 1857 | 800,000–10,000,000 | 2,828,427 | 1857–1858 | India | [36] – Also known as the Sepoy Mutiny or the Indian First War of Independence |
Vietnam War | 800,000–3,800,000 | 1,743,560 | 1955–1975 | Vietnam | [37][38][39] – Also known as the Second Indochina War |
Mfecane | 1,500,000–2,000,000 | 1,732,051 | 1815–1840 | Southern Africa | [40] |
Nigerian Civil War | 1,000,000-3,000,000 | 1,732,051 | 1967–1970 | Nigeria | – Also known as the Biafran War |
War in Afghanistan | 1,240,000–2,000,000 | 1,574,802 | 1978–present | Afghanistan | [41] |
Spanish conquest of Yucatán | 1,460,000+ | 1,460,000 | 1519–1595 | North America | [24] – Part of the European colonisation of the Americas, includes deaths due to European disease |
Second Sudanese Civil War | 1,000,000–2,000,000 | 1,414,214 | 1983–2005 | Sudan | |
Korean War | 1,200,000+ | 1,200,000 | 1950–1953 | Korea | [34] |
Seven Years' War | 868,000–1,400,000 | 1,102,361 | 1756–1763 | Worldwide | [42][43] |
Soviet-Afghan War | 600,000–2,000,000 | 1,095,445 | 1979–1989 | Afghanistan | [44][45][46] – Part of War in Afghanistan |
Japanese invasions of Korea | 1,000,000+ | 1,000,000 | 1592–1598 | Korea | [47] |
Mexican Revolution | 500,000–2,000,000 | 1,000,000 | 1910–1920 | Mexico | [48] |
Panthay Rebellion | 890,000–1,000,000 | 943,398 | 1856–1873 | China | – Also known as the Du Wenxiu Rebellion |
Wars of the Three Kingdoms | 876,000+ | 876,000 | 1639–1651 | British Isles | [49][50][51] – Also known as the British Civil Wars |
Ethiopian Civil War | 500,000–1,500,000 | 866,025 | 1974–1991 | Ethiopia | |
American Civil War | 650,000–1,000,000 | 806,226 | 1861–1865 | USA | [52][53][54] |
Algerian War | 350,000-1,500,000 | 724,569 | 1954–1962 | Algeria | [55] – Also known as the Algerian War of Independence |
War of the Spanish Succession | 400,000–1,251,000 | 707,390 | 1701–1714 | Europe / Americas | [22] |
Spanish Civil War | 500,000–1,000,000 | 707,107 | 1936–1939 | Spain | [56] |
Eighty Years' War | 600,000–700,000 | 648,074 | 1568–1648 | Worldwide | [24] – Also known as the Dutch War of Independence |
Spanish American Wars of Independence | 600,000+ | 600,000 | 1808–1833 | Americas | [57] |
Paraguayan War | 300,000–1,200,000 | 600,000 | 1864–1870 | South America | [58] – Also known as the War of the Triple Alliance |
War on Terror | 272,000–1,260,000 | 585,423 | 2001–present | Worldwide | [59][60][61][62] – Also known as the Global War on Terrorism |
Iran–Iraq War | 289,220–1,100,000 | 564,041 | 1980–1988 | Middle East | |
French invasion of Russia | 540,000+ | 540,000 | 1812 | Russia | [22] – Part of the Napoleonic Wars |
English Civil War | 356,000–735,000 | 511,527 | 1642–1651 | England | [63] – Part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms |
Angolan Civil War | 504,158+ | 504,158 | 1975–2002 | Angola | |
First Sudanese Civil War | 500,000+ | 500,000 | 1955–1972 | Sudan | |
Syrian Civil War | 470,000+ | 470,000 | 2011–present | Syria | See: Casualties of the Syrian civil war |
First Congo War | 250,000–800,000 | 447,214 | 1996–1997 | Congo | |
Iraq War | 176,913–1,120,000 | 445,132 | 2003–2011 | Iraq | [61][62][60] – Also known as the Second Gulf War
– Part of the War on Terror See: Casualties of the Iraq War |
First Indochina War | 400,000+ | 400,000 | 1946–1954 | Southeast Asia | – Also known as the Indochina War |
Maratha expeditions in Bengal | 400,000+ | 400,000 | 1741–1751 | India | [64][65] |
Continuation War | 387,333+ | 387,333 | 1941–1944 | Northern Europe | – Part of World War II |
Somali Civil War | 300,000–500,000 | 387,298 | 1986–present | Somalia | [66][67] |
Crimean War | 356,000–410,000 | 382,047 | 1853–1856 | Crimean Peninsula | |
Cuban War of Independence | 362,000+ | 362,000 | 1895–1898 | Cuba | [56] |
Great Northern War | 350,000+ | 350,000 | 1700–1721 | Eastern Europe | Sweden, the Swedish Baltic provinces, and Finland, together, with a population of only 2.5 million, lost some 350,000 dead during the war from all causes.[68] |
Italian Wars | 300,000–400,000 | 346,410 | 1494–1559 | Southern Europe | [24] – Also known as the Great Wars of Italy |
French conquest of Algeria | 300,000+ | 300,000 | 1829–1847 | Algeria | Including 15,000 French[69] |
Burundian Civil War | 300,000+ | 300,000 | 1993–2005 | Burundi | [70] |
War in Darfur | 178,258–461,520 | 286,827 | 2003–present | Sudan | [71] |
Bangladesh Liberation War | 26,000–3,000,000 | 279,285 | 1971 | Bangladesh | [72] – Also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence |
Second Italo-Ethiopian War | 278,350+ | 278,350 | 1935–1936 | Ethiopia | According to Italian government statistics, the Italians suffered 1,148 KIA, 125 DOW, and 31 MIA.[73] According to the Ethiopian government, at least 275,000 Ethiopians died in the brief war.[73][74] – Also known as the Second Italo–Abyssinian War |
West Papua conflict | 150,000-400,000 | 244,949 | 1963–present | New Guinea | |
Ten Years' War | 241,000+ | 241,000 | 1868–1878 | Cuba | [56] – Also known as the Great War |
Philippine–American War | 234,000+ | 234,000 | 1899–1912 | Philippines | [75] – Also known as the Philippine War |
Venezuelan War of Independence | 228,000+ | 228,000 | 1810–1823 | Venezuela | – Part of Spanish American Wars of Independence |
Ugandan Bush War | 100,000–500,000 | 223,607 | 1981–1986 | Uganda | [76][77] – Also known as the Luwero War |
Lord's Resistance Army insurgency | 100,000–500,000 | 223,607 | 1987–present | Central Africa | [78] |
Colombian conflict | 220,000+ | 220,000 | 1964–present | Colombia | [79] |
Franco-Dutch War | 220,000+ | 220,000 | 1672–1678 | Western Europe | [22] – Also known as the Dutch War |
Iraqi–Kurdish conflict | 138,800–320,100 | 210,784 | 1918–2003 | Iraq | [80][81] |
Franco-Spanish War (1635–59) | 200,000+ | 200,000 | 1635–1659 | Western Europe | [22][56] |
Campaigns of Suleiman the Magnificent | 200,000+ | 200,000 | 1521–1566 | Eastern Europe / Middle East / North Africa | [22] |
Carlist Wars | 200,000+ | 200,000 | 1820–1876 | Spain | [57] |
La Violencia | 192,700–194,700 | 193,697 | 1948–1958 | Colombia | |
Internal conflict in Myanmar | 130,000–250,000 | 180,278 | 1948–present | Myanmar | [82] |
Winter War | 153,736–194,837 | 173,071 | 1939–1940 | Finland | – Part of World War II |
Greek Civil War | 158,000+ | 158,000 | 1946– 1949 | Greece | [83][84][85][86] |
North Yemen Civil War | 100,000–200,000 | 141,421 | 1962–1970 | Yemen | [87] |
1991 Iraqi coup d'état attempt | 85,000–235,000 | 141,333 | 1991 | Iraq | [88][89][90] – Also known as the Sha'aban Intifada |
Balkan Wars | 140,000+ | 140,000 | 1912–1913 | Balkan Peninsula | [22] |
Saint-Domingue expedition | 135,000+ | 135,000 | 1802–1803 | Haiti | [56] |
Lebanese Civil War | 120,000–150,000 | 134,164 | 1975–1990 | Lebanon | |
Sierra Leone Civil War | 50,000-300,000 | 122,474 | 1991-2002 | Sierra Leone | |
Thousand Days' War | 120,000+ | 120,000 | 1899–1902 | Colombia | [91] |
Moro Conflict | 120,000+ | 120,000 | 1969–present | Philippines | [92] |
Great Turkish War | 120,000+ | 120,000 | 1683–1699 | Eastern Europe | [22] – Also known as the War of the Holy League |
Arab–Israeli conflict | 116,074+ | 116,074 | 1948–present | Middle East | [93] |
Mexican Drug War | 106,800+ | 106,800 | 2006–present | Mexico | [94][95] – Also known as the Mexican War on Drugs |
Aceh War | 97,000–107,000 | 101,877 | 1873–1914 | Indonesia | [96] – Also known as the Infidel War |
Bosnian War | 97,214–104,732 | 100,903 | 1991–1995 | Bosnia | |
German Peasants' War | 100,000+ | 100,000 | 1524–1525 | Germany | [97] – Also known as the Great Peasants War |
Kurdish rebellions in Turkey | 100,000+ | 100,000 | 1921–present | Middle East | |
Congo Crisis | 100,000+ | 100,000 | 1960–1965 | Congo | [98] |
Insurgency in Laos | 100,000+ | 100,000 | 1975–2007 | Laos | [99] |
Kivu Conflict | 100,000+ | 100,000 | 2004–present | Congo | – Part of the Second Congo War |
Kashmir Conflict | 80,000–110,000 | 93,808 | 1947– present | North India / Pakistan | |
Algerian Civil War | 44,000–200,000 | 93,808 | 1991–2002 | Algeria | [100] |
Angolan War of Independence | 82,991–102,991 | 92,452 | 1961–1974 | Angola | |
Mahdist War | 90,969+ | 90,969 | 1881–1889 | Northwest Africa | – Also known as the Sudan Campaign |
Rif War | 90,000+ | 90,000 | 1916–1927 | Morocco | |
Sri Lankan Civil War | 80,000–100,000 | 89,443 | 1983–2009 | Sri Lanka | [101] |
Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) | 88,285+ | 88,285 | 1585–1604 | Europe / Americas | [56] |
Indian annexation of Hyderabad | 29,212–242,212 | 84,116 | 1948 | India | – Also known as Operation Polo |
South African War (Second Boer War) | 73,000–90,000 | 81,056 | 1899-1902 | South Africa | [102] |
Iraqi Civil War (2014–present) | 75,000+ | 75,000 | 2014–present | Iraq | |
Mozambican War of Independence | 63,500–88,500 | 74,965 | 1964–1974 | Mozambique | [103] |
Sino-Burmese War (1765–69) | 70,000+ | 70,000 | 1765–1769 | Southeast Asia | – Also known as the Qing invasions of Burma |
Internal conflict in Peru | 70,000+ | 70,000 | 1980–present | Peru | [104] |
French campaign in Egypt and Syria | 65,000+ | 65,000 | 1798–1801 | Middle East / North Africa | [22] |
War in North-West Pakistan | 45,852–78,946 | 60,165 | 2004–present | Pakistan | [60] – Also known as the War in Waziristan
– Part of the War on Terror and War in Afghanistan (2001–present) |
Ituri conflict | 60,000+ | 60,000 | 1999–2003 | Congo | [105] – Part of the Second Congo War |
Soviet–Japanese War | 33,420–95,768 | 56,574 | 1945 | Manchuria | – Part of World War II |
War in Afghanistan (2001–present) | 47,246–61,603 | 53,949 | 2001–present | Afghanistan | [60] – Part of the War on Terror and War in Afghanistan |
Boko Haram insurgency | 51,567+ | 51,567 | 2009–present | Nigeria | 2,400,000 internally displaced |
French intervention in Mexico | 49,287+ | 49,287 | 1862–1867 | Mexico | [56] |
First Sino–Japanese War | 48,311+ | 48,311 | 1894–1895 | East Asia | |
Kurdish–Turkish conflict | 45,000+ | 45,000 | 1978–present | Middle East | [106] – Part of the Kurdish rebellions in Turkey |
American Revolutionary War | 10,435–159,000 | 40,733 | 1775–1783 | Worldwide | [22][107] [108] [109] [110] – Also known as the American War of Independence |
Second Italo-Senussi War | 40,000+ | 40,000 | 1923–1932 | Libya | |
Nagorno-Karabakh War | 38,000+ | 38,000 | 1988–1994 | Caucasus region | – Also known as the Artsakh Liberation War |
CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion | 30,000–43,000 | 35,917 | 1969–present | Philippines | [111] |
Ethnic conflict in Nagaland | 34,000+ | 34,000 | 1954–present | Northeast India | [112] |
Conquest of the Desert | 30,000–35,000 | 32,404 | 1870s–1884 | Patagonia | |
Gulf War | 25,456–40,456 | 32,091 | 1990–1991 | Iraq | – Also known as the First Iraq War |
Greco-Italian War | 27,080+ | 27,080 | 1940–1941 | Southeast Europe | – Part of World War II |
Insurgency in Northeast India | 25,000+ | 25,000 | 1964–present | Northeast India | [82] |
Houthi insurgency in Yemen | 25,000+ | 25,000 | 2004–present | Yemen | [113] – Also known as the Sa'dah War |
Dominican Restoration War | 22,000+ | 22,000 | 1863–1865 | Dominican Republic | One estimate placed total Spanish deaths from all causes at 18,000. The fatal losses among the Dominican insurgents were estimated at 4,000.[56] |
Kurdish separatism in Iran | 13,100–34,000 | 21,105 | 1918–present | Iran | [114] |
Six-Day War | 21,000+ | 21,000 | 1967 | Middle East | [22] |
Yaqui Wars | 20,000+ | 20,000+ | 1533-1929 | See also: Yaqui genocide | |
War of the Quadruple Alliance | 20,000+ | 20,000 | 1718–1720 | Europe / North America | [56] |
Ragamuffin War | 20,000+ | 20,000 | 1835–1845 | Brazil | [115] |
Italo-Turkish War | 20,000+ | 20,000 | 1911–1912 | Southern Europe / North Africa | [22] |
Rhodesian Bush War | 19,619+ | 19,619 | 1964–1979 | Southern Africa | |
First Opium War | 18,069–20,069 | 19,043 | 1839–1842 | China | [116] |
Mexican–American War | 19,000+ | 19,000 | 1846–1848 | USA / Mexico | [22] |
Croatian War of Independence | 16,752–21,426 | 18,945 | 1991–1995 | Croatia | [citation needed] |
Mau Mau Uprising | 14,077–22,077 | 17,629 | 1952–1960 | Kenya | |
1940–44 insurgency in Chechnya | 17,294+ | 17,294 | 1940–1944 | Southern Russia | [citation needed] |
First Anglo-Afghan War | 17,200+ | 17,200 | 1839–1842 | Afghanistan | [117] |
Balochistan conflict | 16,765–17,065 | 16,914 | 1948–present | Balochistan | [118][119][120] |
War of the Pacific | 16,000+ | 16,000 | 1879–1883 | Peru / Bolivia | |
Nepalese Civil War | 16,000+ | 16,000 | 1996–2006 | Nepal | |
Spanish–American War | 16,000+ | 16,000 | 1898 | Caribbean / Pacific Ocean | [22] |
Peasants' War (1798) | 15,200–15,300 | 15,250 | 1798 | Netherlands | – Part of the French Revolutionary Wars |
Nigerian Sharia conflict | 15,000+ | 15,000 | 1953–present | Nigeria | [121][122][123] |
South African Border War | 14,460–14,922 | 14,689 | 1966–1990 | Southern Africa | |
Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997-99) | 13,929+ | 13,929 | 1997–1999 | Congo | [67] |
Naxalite-Maoist insurgency | 13,812+ | 13,812 | 1967–present | India | [124][125] |
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 | 11,500–12,843 | 12,153 | 1971 | India / Pakistan | – Part of the Bangladesh Liberation War |
Malayan Emergency | 10,000+ | 10,000 | 1948–1960 | Malaysia | [126] |
War in Donbass | 10,000+ | 10,000 | 2014–present | Ukraine | [127] – Part of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present) |
Rwandan Civil War | 10,000+ | 10,000 | 1990–1993 | Rwanda | |
First Italo-Ethiopian War | 10,000+ | 10,000 | 1895–1896 | Ethiopia | [22] |
Second Melillan campaign | 10,000+ | 10,000 | 1909–1910 | Morocco | [22] |
Hispano-Moroccan War (1859–60) | 10,000+ | 10,000 | 1859–1860 | Morocco | [22] |
Spanish conquest of Tripoli | 10,000+ | 10,000 | 1510 | Libya | [128] |
Modern wars with fewer than 10,000 deaths by death toll
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- 9,400+ – Libyan Civil War (2011) (2011)[129]
- 8,136+ – Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal) (2011–2014)[130]
- 8,000+ – 1948 Palestine war (1948–1949)[22] – Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict
- 7,500–21,741 – War of 1812 (1812–1815)[22][131]
- 7,400–16,200 – Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) (2015–present)
- 7,104+ – Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 (1947–1949)
- 7,000+ – Chadian Civil War (2005–10) (2005–2010)[132]
- 6,800–13,459 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (1965)
- 6,543+ – South Thailand insurgency (2004–present)[133]
- 6,295+ – Central African Republic conflict (2012–present)
- 5,641+ – Sudanese nomadic conflicts (2009–present)[134][135]
- 5,100+ – Gaza–Israel conflict (2006–present) – Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict
- 5,000+ – Casamance conflict (1982–2014)[136]
- 5,000+ – Chilean Civil War of 1891 (1891)[137]
- 4,715+ – Libyan Civil War (2014–present) (2014–present)
- 4,000–10,000 – Conflict in the Niger Delta (2004–present)[138]
- 3,699+ – Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen (1992–present)[67]
- 3,529+ – The Northern Ireland Troubles (1966–1998)[139]
- 3,366+ – Insurgency in the North Caucasus (2009–2017)[140]
- 3,222–3,722 – Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (1956)
- 3,144+ – Allied Democratic Forces insurgency (1996–present)
- 3,114+ – 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine (1947–1948) – Part of the 1948 Palestine war
- 3,007+ – War of the Golden Stool (1900)[citation needed]
- 3,000–6,000 – Negro Rebellion (1912)[141][142]
- 3,000+ – Second Ivorian Civil War (2010–2011)[143]
- 3,000+ – Banana Wars (1914–1933)[19]
- 2,944+ – Insurgency in the Maghreb (2004–present)
- 2,800+ – Northern Mali conflict (2012–present)
- 2,781+ – Iranian Revolution (1978–1979)[144]
- 2,751+ – Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)[145]
- 2,557+ – Sudan internal conflict (2011–present) (2011–present)[146][147][148]
- 2,394+ – Sinai insurgency (2011–present)[149]
- 2,300+ – Conflict in the Niger Delta (2003–present) [150][151]
- 2,221–2,406 – 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict (2014) – Part of the Gaza–Israel conflict
- 2,150+ – Persian Expedition of 1796 (1796)
- 2,096+ – Aden Emergency (1963-1967)
- 2,054+ – South Yemen insurgency (2009–2015)
- 2,000+ – Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821)
- 2,000+ – Costa Rican Civil War (1948)[citation needed]
- 2,000+ – Six-Day War (2000) (2000)[152]
- 2,000+ – 2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes (2010)[153][154][155]
- 1,810+ – Anglo-Iraqi War (1941) – Part of World War II
- 1,774+ – Lapland War (1944-1945) – Part of World War II
- 1,643–2,237 – War of Transnistria (1992)[156][157][158][159]
- 1,449+ – M23 rebellion (2012-2013) – Part of the Kivu Conflict
- 1,300+ – Allied Democratic Forces insurgency (1996–present)[160]
- 1,295+ – Siachen conflict (1984–present)
- 1,229+ – Basque conflict (1959–2011)[161]
- 1,227–5,600 – Kargil War (1999)[162][163][164][165]
- 1,119+ – Post-coup unrest in Egypt (2013–2014) (2013–2014)[166]
- 1,043+ – Burundian unrest (2015–present)
- 1,000–1,500 – Cabinda conflict (1994–present)[167]
- 1,000+ – Djiboutian Civil War (1991–1994)
- 1,000+ – 1991–92 South Ossetia War (1991–1992)[168]
- 1,000+ – Xinjiang conflict (1960–present)
- 1,000+ – Chincha Islands War (1864–1866)[22]
- 907 – Falklands War (1982)[169]
- 898 – Barbary Wars (1801–1815)
- 846 – 2011 Egyptian revolution (2011)[170]
- 820 – Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon (2011–2017)[citation needed] – Part of the Syrian Civil War
- 808 – Sino-Russian border conflicts (1652-1689)
- 803-1303 - Conflict in Najran, Jizan and Asir (2015-present) – Part of the Yemeni Civil War (2015-present)
- 789–1,874 – 2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff (2001–2002)
- 771 – Insurgency in Egypt (2013–present) (2013–present)
- 740 – Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation (1963–1966)[171][172]
- 722 – Kamwina Nsapu rebellion (2016–present)
- 700–800 – Anglo-Aro War (1901-1902)[citation needed]
- 659–2,496 – Russia–Georgia war (2008)[173][174][175][176][177]
- 643–1,500 – Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile (2011–present)[148][147]
- 547 – Cyprus crisis (1955–64) (1955–1964)
- 542 – East Prigorodny Conflict (1992)[citation needed]
- 422 – Franco-Thai War (1940–1941)[citation needed]
- 339 – Turkey–ISIL conflict (2015–present)[citation needed]
- 327 – RENAMO insurgency (2013–present)
- 275–569 – Second Afar insurgency (1995–present) Part of the Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict
- 236 – Batwa-Luba clashes (2013–present)
- 206–345 – Arab separatism in Khuzestan (1922–present)[citation needed]
- 200 – 1935 Yazidi revolt (1935)[citation needed]
- 174–194 – United States occupation of Veracruz (1914)[178]
- 159 – ISIL insurgency in Tunisia (2015–present)[citation needed]
- 158 – Dissident Irish Republican campaign (1998–present)[citation needed]
- 126 – 2016 Kasese clashes (2016)[179][180]
- 115 – The Pool War (2016–present)
- 102-227 – India–Pakistan military confrontation (2016–present) (2016–present)
- 95 – 2013 Guinea clashes (2013)[181]
- 84–134 – Lahad Datu standoff (2013)[182][183]
- 82 – Quasi-War (1798-1800)
- 82 – North-West Rebellion (1885) [184]
- 71 – Paraguayan People's Army insurgency (2005–present)[citation needed]
- 63 – Ten-Day War (1991)
- 46 – Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli (1954)
- 39-111 – India–Pakistan border skirmishes (2014–2015) (2014-2015)
- 37 – 2013 India–Pakistan border skirmishes (2013)
- 36 – DHKP/C insurgency in Turkey (1990–present)[citation needed]
- 36 – 2016 Niger Delta conflict (2016–Present) [185] – Part of the Conflict in the Niger Delta
- 12–61 – 2017 Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmish (2017) – Part of the Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes
- 11–30 – 2008 Kufra conflict (2008)
- 8 – 2011 India–Pakistan border skirmish (2011)
Charts and graphs
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See also
- Timeline of wars
- List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll
- List of battles by casualties
- List of number of conflicts per year
- Lists of wars
- List of ongoing armed conflicts
- List of genocides by death toll
- List of countries by refugee population
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Further reading
- Steven Pinker (2011). The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Penguin Books. ISBN 1101544643. pp. 832. (see also: 2016 update)
- Levy, Jack S. (1983). War in the Modern Great Power System: 1495-1975. University Press of Kentucky, USA. ISBN 081316365X.
External links
- An Interactive map of all the battles fought around the world in the last 4,000 years
- Information on 1,500 conflicts since 1800
- Max Roser: ‘War and Peace’. (2016). Published online at OurWorldInData.org.