List of Wars By Death Toll

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 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 etc. The list includes wars with over 1,000 casualties.

This is an incomplete list of wars.

• 60,000,000–78,000,000 – World War II (1939–1945), (see World War II casualties)
• 30,000,000–60,000,000 – Mongol Conquests (13th century) (see Mongol invasions and Tatar invasions)
• 25,000,000 – Qing dynasty conquest of Ming dynasty (1616–1662)
• 20,000,000 – World War I (1914–1918) (see World War I casualties)
• 20,000,000-100,000,000 – Taiping Rebellion (China, 1850–1864) (see Dungan revolt)
• 16,000,000 – White Lotus Rebellion (China, 1794-1804)
• 13,000,000 - An Shi Rebellion (China, 755–763)
• 10,000,000 – Warring States Era (China, 475 BCE–221 BCE)
• 8,000,000–12,000,000 – Dungan revolt (China, 1862 –1877)
• 7,000,000–20,000,000 – Conquests of Tamerlane (1370–1405)
• 5,000,000–9,000,000 – Russian Civil War and Foreign Intervention (1917–1922)
• 5,000,000 – Conquests of Menelik II of Ethiopia (1882–1898)
• 2,500,000–5,400,000 – Second Congo War (1998–2003)
• 3,500,000–6,000,000 – Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) (see Napoleonic Wars casualties)
• 3,000,000–11,500,000 – Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)
• 3,000,000–7,000,000 – Yellow Turban Rebellion (China, 184–205)
• 3,000,000 – Afghan Civil War (Afghanistan, 1979–Present)
  • 1,000,000–1,500,000 – Soviet intervention (1979–1989)
  • 20,000–49,600 UK and US Invasion of Afghanistan (2001–2002)
• 1,200,000 – Korean War (1950–1953)
• 2,500,000–4,000,000 – Hunnic Invasion (408–469)
• 791,000-1,141,000 – Vietnam War
• 2,000,000–4,000,000 – Huguenot Wars
• 1,500,000–2,000,000 – War against Armenians, Greeks and Arameans, by the Turks.
• 2,000,000 – Shaka's conquests (1816–1828)
• 300,000–3,000,000 – Bangladesh Liberation War (1971)
• 2,000,000 – Russian-Circassian War (1763–1864) (see Caucasian War) and the exile of another 1.5 million Circassians from their homeland to the Ottoman Empire and another 500,000 Circassians Killed at sea during the Circassian exile from their homeland.
• 1,300,000–6,100,000 – Chinese Civil War (1927–1949) note that this figure excludes World War II casualties
  • 300,000–3,100,000 – before 1937
  • 1,000,000–3,000,000 – after World War II
• 1,000,000-3,000,000 - Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)
• 1,000,000–2,000,000 – Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)
• 1,000,000 – Gallic Wars (58 BCE–52 BCE)
• 1,000,000 – Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)
• 1,000,000 – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)
• 1,000,000 – Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005)
• 1,000,000 – Panthay Rebellion (China,1856–1873)
• 1,000,000 – Nien Rebellion (China,1853–1868)
• 618,000–970,000 – American Civil War (including 350,000 from disease) (1861–1865)
• 900,000–1,000,000 – Mozambique Civil War (1975–1994)
• 868,000–1,400,000 – Seven Years' War (1756–1763)
• 868,000 – English Civil War (1642–1651)
• 800,000–1,000,000 – Rwandan Civil War (1990–1993)
• 800,000 – Congo Civil War (1996–1997)
• 580,000 – Bar Kokhba’s revolt (Third Jewish-Roman War) (132–135CE)
• 570,000 – Eritrean War of Independence (1961–1991)
• 550,000 – Somali Civil War (1988– )
• 500,000–1,000,000 – Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
• 500,000+ – Assyrian wars of conquest (8th–7th Century BCE)
• 500,000 – Angolan Civil War (1975–2002)
• 500,000 – Ugandan Civil War (1979–1986)
• 440,000+ – Kitos War
• 400,000–1,100,000 – First Jewish–Roman War (see List of Roman wars)
• 400,000–1,000,000 – Paraguayan War (1864–1870)
• 400,000 – War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)
• 371,000 – Continuation War (1941–1944)
• 350,000 – Great Northern War (1700–1721)
• 315,000–735,000 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651) English campaign ~40,000, Scottish 73,000, Irish 200,000–620,000
• 300,000 – First Burundi Civil War (1972)
• 300,000 – Darfur conflict (2003–)
• 230,000–2,000,000 – Eighty Years' War (1568–1648)
• 270,000–300,000 – Crimean War (1854–1856)
• 234,000 – Philippine-American War (1899–1912)
• 230,000–1,400,000 – Ethiopian Civil War (1974–1991)
• 224,000 – Balkan Wars, includes both wars (1912–1913)
• 220,000 – Liberian Civil War (1989–1995 )
• 200,000–1,000,000 – Albigensian Crusade (1208–1259)
• 200,000–800,000 – Warlord era in China (1916–1928)
• 200,000–400,000 – Politionele acties (Indonesian war of independence) (1945–1949)
• 200,000–220,000 – The Conquest of Chile (1536–1883)
• 200,000 – Second Punic War (218 BCE–204 BCE) (see List of Roman battles)
• 200,000 – Sierra Leone Civil War (1992–2001)
• 200,000 – Algerian Civil War (1991–2002 )
• 200,000 – Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996)
• 190,000 – Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)
• 180,000–300,000 – La Violencia (1948–1960)
• 170,500–873,000 – Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923)
• 170,000 – Greek War of Independence (1821–1830)
• 150,000–170,000 – Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990)
• 150,000 – North Yemen Civil War (1962–1970)
• 150,000 – Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)
• 148,000–1,000,000 – Winter War (1939)
• 125,000 – Eritrean-Ethiopian War (1998–2000)
• 120,000–384,000 – Great Turkish War (1683–1699) (see Ottoman-Habsburg wars)
• 120,000 – Third Servile War (73 BCE–71 BCE)
• 117,000–500,000 – Revolt in the Vendée (1793–1796)
• 116,000+ – Yugoslav Wars 1991–1995
• 109,032–160,000 – Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011)
• 100,500 – Chaco War (1932–1935)
• 100,000–1,000,000 – War of the two brothers (1531–1532)
• 100,000–400,000 – Western New Guinea (1984– ) (see Genocide in West Papua)
• 100,000–200,000 – Indonesian invasion of East Timor (1975–1978)
• 100,000–1,000,000 – Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962)
• 100,000 – Harrying of the North (1069–1070)
• 100,000 – Thousand Days War (1899–1902)
• 100,000 – German Peasants' War (1524–1525)
• 100,000–105,000 – First Kurdish Iraqi War
• 95,000-105,000 - Bosnian War (1992–1995)
• 80,000 – Third Punic War (149 BCE–146 BCE )
• 75,000–200,000 – Conquests of Alexander the Great (336 BCE–323 BCE)
• 75,000 – El Salvador Civil War (1980–1992)
• 75,000 – Second Boer War (1899–1902)
• 70,000–400,000 – Greco-Turkish War, part of the Turkish War of Independence
• 70,000 – Syrian civil war (2011– )
• 70,000 – Boudica's uprising (60–61)
• 69,000 – Internal conflict in Peru (1980– )
• 60,000–432,000 Turkish-Armenian War, part of the Turkish War of Independence
• 60,000 – Sri Lanka/Tamil conflict (1983–2009)
• 60,000 – Nicaraguan Revolution (1972–91)
• 55,000 – War of the Pacific (1879–1884)
• 50,000–200,000 – First Chechen War (1994–1996)
• 50,000–100,000 – Tajikistan Civil War (1992–1997)
• 50,000–100,000 – Prussian Crusade (13th Century)
• 50,000 – Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) (see Wars involving England)
• 45,000 – 50,000 – American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
• 45,000 – Greek Civil War (1945–1949)
• 41,000–100,000 – Kashmiri insurgency (1989– )
• 40,000 – Franco-Turkish War, part of the Turkish War of Independence
• 40,000–57,000 – Persian Gulf War (1990–1991)
• 36,000 – Finnish Civil War (1918)
• 35,000–40,000 – War of the Pacific (1879–1884)
• 35,000–45,000 – Siege of Malta (1565) (see Ottoman wars in Europe)
• 30,000–50,000 – Kurdish–Turkish conflict
• 30,000 – Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
• 30,000 – Rhodesian Bush War (1964–1979)
• 28,000 – First Lebanon War (1982), part of the Lebanese Civil War
• 25,000 – 30,000 – Libyan civil war (2011)
• 25,000 – Second Chechen War (1999–2001)
• 23,384 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (December 1971)
• 23,000 – Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994)
• 20,000+ – War in Abkhazia (1992–1993) (1992–1993)
• 19,000+ – Mexican–American War (1846–1848)
• 15,000–20,000 – Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995)
• 14,400–24,400 – 1948 Palestine War (1947–1949)
• 14,000–24,483 – Six-Day War (1967)
• 13,000+ – Nepalese Civil War (1996–2006)
• 11,053 – Malayan Emergency (1948–1960)
• 11,000 – Spanish-American War (1898)
• 10,000–21,000 – Yom Kippur War (1973)
• 10,000 – Amadu's Jihad (1810–1818)
• 8,500 – Toyota War (1986–87) part of the Chadian-Libyan conflict
• 8,000 – War of the Confederation (1836–1839)
• 7,264–10,000 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (August–September 1965)
• 7,000–24,000 – American War of 1812 (1812–1815)
• 7,000–10,000 – 1994 civil war in Yemen (1994)
• 5,573–13,521 – War of Attrition (1967–70)
• 5,000–12,000 – South Yemen Civil War (1986)
• 5,000 – 6,000 – Brazilian War of Independence (1822–1823)
• 5,000 – Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974)
• 5,000 – Franco-Syrian War (1919–1921)
• 5,000–9,000 – Second Kurdish Iraqi War (1974–1975)
• 4,600 – Sino-Indian War (1962)
• 4,000+ – Western Sahara War (1975–1991)
• 4,000 – Waziristan War (2004–2006)
• 4,000 – Irish Civil War (1922–23)
• 3,781 – War of the Camps (1985–1988), part of the Lebanese Civil War
• 3,400–10,000 Jordanian-Palestinian Civil War
• 3,203 – Suez War (1956)
• 3,000 – Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire (2002–2007)
• 2,899 – New Zealand Land Wars (1845–1872)
• 2,604–7,000 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 (October 1947–December 1948)
• 2,300+ – Saudi-Rashidi War (1903–1907)
• 2,100 – Saudi-Yemeni War (1934)
• 2,000–7,000 – Kosovo War (1998–1999)
• 2,000 – Football War (1969)
• 2,000 – Irish War of Independence (1919–21)
• 2,000 – Uganda–Tanzania war (1978–79)
• 2,000 – Turko-Cypriot War (1974)
• 1,724 – War of Lapland (1945)
• 1,600 – Mountain War (Lebanon) (1983–1984), part of the Lebanese Civil War
• 1,500 – Romanian Revolution (December 1989)
• 1,500 – Second Lebanon War (2006)
• 1,394 – First Nejd-Hijaz War
• 1,179–1,430 – Gaza War (2008–09)
• 1,000 – Zapatista uprising in Chiapas (1994)
• 1,000+ – Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821)