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This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics, famines, or genocides.
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
See also World War I casualties. da. ^ World War II Note: as of March 31, 1946, there were an estimated 286,959 dead of whom 246,492 were identified; of 40,467 who were unidentified 18,641 were located {10,986 reposed in military cemeteries and 7,655 in isolated graves} and 21,826 were reported not located. As of April 6, 1946, there were 539 ...
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The number of Bulgarian partisan deaths against the "fascists" was 10,000. [26] 10,124 Bulgarian [26] and 21,035 Romanian deaths [27] were documented with the Allies. 1,036 Finns died in the Lapland War [28] and 8,000 Czech partisans were killed in the Prague Uprising. [24] The Allied casualties at the Eastern Front total at 8,900,000 deaths.
War casualties include both military personnel and civilians who are killed, wounded, imprisoned, or missing as a result of warfare. Civilian casualties are given special attention under International law. The term "casualties" is frequently misconstrued and misused due to conflation with the term "fatalities" (deaths).
The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of deaths. Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023.