Wars and Armed Conflicts
These figures of one million or more deaths include the deaths of civilians from diseases, famine, etc., as well as deaths of soldiers in battle and possible massacres and genocide. Where only one estimate is available, it appears in both the low and high estimates. This is a sortable table. Click on the column sort buttons to sort results numerically or alphabetically.
| Lowest estimate | Highest estimate | Event | Location | From | To | See also | Percentage of the world population |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 700740000000000000040,000,000 | 700772000000000000072,000,000 | World War II | Worldwide | 1939 | 1945 | World War II casualties and Second Sino-Japanese War | 70001700000000000001.7%–3.1% |
| 700730000000000000030,000,000 | 700760000000000000060,000,000 | Mongol Conquests | East Asia, Eastern Europe, West Asia | 1207 | 1472 | Mongol invasions and Tatar invasions | 70007500000000000007.5%–17.1% |
| 700730000000000000030,000,000 | 700730000000000000030,000,000 | Late Yuan warfare and transition to Ming Dynasty | China | 1340 | 1368 | Ming Dynasty | 70006700000000000006.7% |
| 700725000000000000025,000,000 | 700725000000000000025,000,000 | Qing dynasty conquest of the Ming Dynasty | China | 1616 | 1662 | Qing Dynasty | 70004800000000000004.8% |
| 700720000000000000020,000,000 | 7008100000000000000100,000,000 | Taiping Rebellion | China | 1851 | 1864 | Dungan revolt | 70001600000000000001.6%–2.1% |
| 700715000000000000015,000,000 | 700765000000000000065,000,000 | World War I (High estimate includes Spanish flu deaths) | Worldwide | 1914 | 1918 | World War I casualties | 69998000000000000000.8%–3.6% |
| 700715000000000000015,000,000 | 700720000000000000020,000,000 | Conquests of Timur | West Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Russia | 1369 | 1405 | 70003400000000000003.4%–4.5% | |
| 700713000000000000013,000,000 | 700736000000000000036,000,000 | An Lushan Rebellion | China | 755 | 763 | Medieval warfare | 70005500000000000005.5%–15.3% |
| 70068000000000000008,000,000 | 700712000000000000012,000,000 | Dungan revolt | China | 1862 | 1877 | Panthay Rebellion | 69996000000000000000.6%–0.9% |
| 70065000000000000005,000,000 |
70069000000000000009,000,000 | Russian Civil War | Russia | 1917 | 1921 | Russian Revolution (1917), List of civil wars | 69992800000000000000.28%–0.5% |
| 70063800000000000003,800,000 | 70065400000000000005,400,000 | Second Congo War | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1998 | 2003 | First Congo War | 69986000000000000000.06%–0.09% |
| 70063500000000000003,500,000 |
70067000000000000007,000,000 | Napoleonic Wars | Europe, Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean | 1804 | 1815 | Napoleonic Wars casualties | 69994000000000000000.4%–0.7% |
| 70063000000000000003,000,000 | 700711500000000000011,500,000 | Thirty Years' War | Holy Roman Empire | 1618 | 1648 | Religious war | 69995000000000000000.5%–2.1% |
| 70063000000000000003,000,000 | 70067000000000000007,000,000 | Yellow Turban Rebellion | China | 184 | 205 | Part of Three Kingdoms War | 70001300000000000001.3%–3.1% |
| 70061500000000000001,500,000 | 70062000000000000002,000,000 | Afghan Civil War | Afghanistan | 1979 | Present | Soviet-Afghan War, Taliban Era, and NATO Intervention. Death toll estimates through 1999 (2M) and 2000 (1.5M and 2M). | 69986000000000000000.06% |
| 70063000000000000003,000,000 | 70064000000000000004,000,000 | Deluge | Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | 1655 | 1660 | Second Northern War | 69996000000000000000.6%–0.7% |
| 7005400000000000000400,000 | 70064500000000000004,500,000 | Korean War | Korean Peninsula | 1950 | 1953 | Cold War | 69991000000000000000.1% |
| 70061000000000000001,000,000 | 70063000000000000003,000,000 | Vietnam War | Southeast Asia | 1955 | 1975 | Cold War and First Indochina War | 69988000000000000000.08%–0.19% |
| 70062000000000000002,000,000 | 70064000000000000004,000,000 | French Wars of Religion | France | 1562 | 1598 | Religious war | 69994000000000000000.4%–0.8% |
| 70062000000000000002,000,000 |
70062000000000000002,000,000 |
Shaka's conquests | Africa | 1816 | 1828 | Ndwandwe–Zulu War | 69992000000000000000.2% |
| 70061000000000000001,000,000 | 70062000000000000002,000,000 | Second Sudanese Civil War | Sudan | 1983 | 2005 | Religious war | 69982000000000000000.02% |
| 70061000000000000001,000,000 | 70063000000000000003,000,000 | Crusades | Holy Land, Europe | 1095 | 1291 | Religious war | 69993000000000000000.3%–2.3% |
| 7005600000000000000600,000 | 70062000000000000002,000,000 | Soviet War in Afghanistan | Afghanistan | 1980 | 1988 | Cold War | 69981200000000000000.012%–0.04% |
| 7005800000000000000800,000 | 70061000000000000001,000,000 | Du Wenxiu Rebellion | China | 1856 | 1873 | ||
| 7005500000000000000500,000 | 70062000000000000002,000,000 | Mexican Revolution | Mexico, United States | 1911 | 1920 | Pancho Villa and Columbus Raid | 69983000000000000000.03%–0.1% |
| 7005500000000000000500,000 | 70062000000000000002,000,000 | Iran–Iraq War | Iran, Iraq | 1980 | 1988 | Al-Anfal Campaign and Invasion of Kuwait | 69981000000000000000.01%–0.04% |
| 7005400000000000000400,000 | 7005800000000000000800,000 | American Civil War | United States | 1861 | 1865 | 69983000000000000000.03%-0.06% | |
| 7005300000000000000300,000 | 70061200000000000001,200,000 | Paraguayan War | South America | 1864 | 1870 | Military history of South America and Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias | 69982000000000000000.02%–0.08% |
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Famous quotes containing the words wars, armed and/or conflicts:
“Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery. Nothing else holds fashion.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by power enough to give authority to its decrees. ... Unless a league something like this results at our peace conference, we shall merely drop back into armed hostility and international anarchy. The war will have been fought in vain ...”
—Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve (1877–1965)
“I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.”
—D.W. Winnicott (20th century)