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

List

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War Death
range 		Date Combatants Location
World War II 50–85 million[1][2][3] 1937[a]–1945 Allied Powers vs. Axis Powers Global
Taiping Rebellion 20–30 million[5][6] 1850–1864 Qing Dynasty vs. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom China
An Lushan Rebellion 13–36 million[7] 754–763 Tang Dynasty and Uyghur Khaganate vs. Yan Dynasty China
Manchu Conquest of China 25 million[8][9] 1618–1683 Transition from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty China
World War I 15–20 million[10][11] 1914–1918 Allied Powers vs. Central Powers Global
Russian Civil War 7–12 million 1917–1922 Multiple sides; Bolsheviks, Anti-Bolshevik left, White Movement, Allied and Central Intervention, as well as various separatists Russia
Dungan Revolt 8–10 million 1862–1877 Qing Dynasty vs. Kashgaria vs. Hui Muslims China
Chinese Civil War 6–8 million 1927–1949 Multiple sides, but predominantly Kuomintang vs. Communists China
Thirty Years' War 4.5–8 million 1618–1648 Protestants vs. Catholics Europe
Napoleonic Wars 3.2–6.5 million 1803–1815 French Republic, later the French Empire vs. Coalition forces Europe
Second Congo War 5.4 million[12][13] 1998–2003 Multiple sides Democratic Republic of the Congo

Charts and graphs

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Bubble chart of wars over 1.5M deaths.
Seven deadliest wars after 1900. The length of each spiral segment is proportional to the war's duration and its area size to its death toll.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ While the war in Europe began in 1939, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident is often considered the beginning of World War II at large[4]

References

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  1. ^ "World War II". National Park Service.
  2. ^ "World War II". highpointnc.gov.
  3. ^ "Estimated number of military and civilian fatalities due to the Second World War per country or region between 1939 and 1945". Statista.
  4. ^ "Liberation in China and the Pacific". National World War II Museum.
  5. ^ "Taiping Rebellion". Encyclopædia Britannica.
  6. ^ "The Taiping Rebellion of 1850-64". University at Albany.
  7. ^ White, Matthew (2012). The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities. W. W. Norton. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-393-08192-3.
  8. ^ "To history, today's violence is a speck". South China Morning Post. 28 October 2011.
  9. ^ "5 Of The 10 Deadliest Wars Began In China". Business Insider. 6 October 2014.
  10. ^ "World War I Casualties" (Document). United States Census Bureau.
  11. ^ "Number of military and civilian fatalities during the First World War, per country or world power, between 1914 and 1918". Statista.
  12. ^ Bavier, Joe (22 January 2008). "Congo war-driven crisis kills 45,000 a month-study". Reuters.
  13. ^ Moszynski, Peter (2 February 2008). "5.4 million people have died in Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998 because of conflict, report says". National Library of Medicine.

Further reading

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