List of wars by death toll
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These figures include deaths of civilians from diseases, famine, atrocities etc. as well as deaths of soldiers in battle.

This is an incomplete list of wars.

    * 60,000,000–72,000,000 - World War II (1939–1945), (see World War II casualties)[67][68]
    * 36,000,000 - An Shi Rebellion (China, 755–763)[citation needed]
    * 30,000,000–60,000,000 - Mongol Conquests (13th century) (see Mongol invasions and Tatar invasions)[69][70][71][72]
    * 25,000,000 - Manchu conquest of Ming China (1616–1662)[73]
    * 20,000,000 - World War I (1914–1918) (see World War I casualties)[74]
    * 20,000,000 - Taiping Rebellion (China, 1851–1864) (see Dungan revolt)[75]
    * 20,000,000 - Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)[76]
    * 10,000,000 - Warring States Era (China, 475 BC–221 BC)
    * 7,000,000 - 20,000,000 Conquests of Timur the Lame (1360-1405)[77][78]
    * 5,000,000–9,000,000 - Russian Civil War and Foreign Intervention (1917–1921)[79]
    * 5,000,000 - Conquests of Menelik II of Ethiopia (1882- 1898)[80][81]
    * 3,800,000 - 5,400,000 - Second Congo War (1998–2007)[82][83][84]
    * 3,500,000–6,000,000 - Napoleonic Wars (1804–1815) (see Napoleonic Wars casualties)
    * 3,000,000–11,500,000 - Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)[85]
    * 3,000,000–7,000,000 - Yellow Turban Rebellion (China, 184–205)
    * 2,500,000–3,500,000 - Korean War (1950–1953) (see Cold War)[86]
    * 2,300,000–3,800,000 - Vietnam War (entire war 1945–1975)
          o 300,000–1,300,000 - First Indochina War (1945–1954)
          o 100,000–300,000 - Vietnamese Civil War (1954–1960)
          o 1,750,000–2,100,000 - American phase (1960–1973)
          o 170,000 - Final phase (1973–1975)
          o 175,000–1,150,000 - Secret War (1962–1975)
    * 2,000,000–4,000,000 - Huguenot Wars [87]
    * 2,000,000 - Shaka's conquests (1816-1828)[88]
    * 2,000,000 - Mahmud of Ghazni's invasions of India (1000-1027)[89]
    * 300,000–3,000,000[90] - Bangladesh Liberation War (1971)
    * 1,500,000–2,000,000 - Afghan Civil War (1979-)
          o 1,000,000–1,500,000 Soviet intervention (1979–1989)
    * 1,300,000–6,100,000 - Chinese Civil War (1928–1949) note that this figure excludes World War II casualties
          o 300,000–3,100,000 before 1937
          o 1,000,000–3,000,000 after World War II
    * 1,000,000–2,000,000 - Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)[91]
    * 1,000,000 - Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988)[92]
    * 1,000,000 - Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598)[93]
    * 1,000,000 - Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005)
    * 1,000,000 - Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970)
    * 618,000[94] - 970,000 - American Civil War (including 350,000 from disease) (1861–1865)
    * 900,000–1,000,000 - Mozambique Civil War (1976–1993)
    * 868,000[95] - 1,400,000[96] - Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
    * 800,000 - 1,000,000 - Rwandan Civil War (1990-1994)
    * 800,000 - Congo Civil War (1991–1997)
    * 600,000 to 1,300,000 - First Jewish-Roman War (see List of Roman wars)
    * 580,000 - Bar Kokhba’s revolt (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 - Angolan Civil War (1975–2002)
    * 500,000 - Ugandan Civil War (1979–1986)
    * 400,000–1,000,000 - War of the Triple Alliance in Paraguay (1864–1870)
    * 400,000 - War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
    * 371,000 - Continuation War (1941-1944)
    * 350,000 - Great Northern War (1700-1721)[97]
    * 315,000 - 735,000 - Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639-1651) English campaign ~40,000, Scottish 73,000, Irish 200,000-620,000[98]
    * 300,000 - Russian-Circassian War (1763-1864) (see Caucasian War)
    * 300,000 - First Burundi Civil War (1972)
    * 300,000 - Darfur conflict (2003-)
    * 270,000–300,000 - Crimean War (1854–1856)
    * 255,000-1,120,000 - Philippine-American War (1898-1913)
    * 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 - )
    * 217,000 - 1,124,303 - War on Terror (9/11/2001-Present)[citation needed]
    * 200,000 - 1,000,000[99][100] - Albigensian Crusade (1208-1259)
    * 200,000–800,000 - Warlord era in China (1917–1928)
    * 200,000 - Second Punic War (BC218-BC204) (see List of Roman battles)
    * 200,000 - Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2000)
    * 200,000 - Algerian Civil War (1991- )[101][102]
    * 200,000 - Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996)
    * 190,000 - Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)
    * 180,000 - 300,000 - La Violencia (1948-1958)
    * 170,000 - Greek War of Independence (1821-1829)
    * 150,000 - 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 (BC73-BC71)
    * 117,000 - 500,000 - Revolt in the Vendιe (1793-1796)
    * 103,359+ - 1,136,920+ - Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (2003-Present)
    * 101,000 - 115,000 - Arab-Israeli conflict (1929- )
    * 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 - Persian Gulf War (1991)
    * 100,000–1,000,000 - Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962)
    * 100,000 - Thousand Days War (1899–1901)
    * 100,000 - Peasants' War (1524-1525)[103]
    * 97,207 - Bosnian War (1992-1995)[104]
    * 80,000 - Third Punic War (BC149-BC146)
    * 75,000 - 200,000? - Conquests of Alexander the Great (BC336-BC323)
    * 75,000 - El Salvador Civil War (1980–1992)
    * 75,000 - Second Boer War (1898–1902)
    * 70,000 - Boudica's uprising (AD60-AD61)
    * 69,000 - Internal conflict in Peru (1980- )
    * 60,000 - Sri Lanka/Tamil conflict (1983-2009)
    * 60,000 - Nicaraguan Rebellion (1972-91)
    * 55,000 - War of the Pacific (1879-1885)
    * 50,000 - 200,000 - First Chechen War (1994–1996)
    * 50,000 - 100,000 - Tajikistan Civil War (1992–1997)
    * 50,000 - Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) (see Wars involving England)
    * 45,000 - Greek Civil War (1945-1949)
    * 41,000–100,000 - Kashmiri insurgency (1989- )
    * 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 - Turkey/PKK conflict (1984- )
    * 30,000 - Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
    * ~28,000 - 1982 Lebanon War (1982)
    * 25,000 - Second Chechen War (1999 - present)[105]
    * 25,000 - American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
    * 23,384 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (December 1971)
    * 23,000 - Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988-1994)
    * 20,000 - 49,600 U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan (2001–2002)
    * 19,000+ - Mexican–American War (1846-1848)
    * 14,000+ - Six-Day War (1967)
    * 15,000–20,000 - Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995)
    * 11,053 - Malayan Emergency (1948-1960)
    * 11,000 - Spanish-American War (1898)
    * 10,000 - Amadu's Jihad (1810-1818)
    * 10,000 - Halabja poison gas attack (1988)
    * 7,264–10,000 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (August-September 1965)
    * 7,000–24,000 - American War of 1812 (1812-1815)
    * 7,000 - Kosovo War (1996–1999) (disputed)
    * 5,000 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974)
    * 4,588 - Sino-Indian War (1962)
    * 4,000 - Waziristan War (2004-2006)
    * 4,000 - Irish Civil War (1922-23)
    * 3,000 - Civil war in Cτte 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)
    * 2,000 - Football War (1969)
    * 2,000 - Irish War of Independence (1919-21)
    * 1,975–4,500+ - violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (2000 -)
    * 1,724 - War of Lapland (1945)
    * 1,500 - Romanian Revolution (December 1989)
    * ~1,500 - 2006 Lebanon War
    * ~1,400 - Gaza War (December 2008 - January 2009)
    * 1,000 - Zapatista uprising in Chiapas (1994)
    * 907 - Falklands War (1982)
    * 62 - Slovenian Independence War (1991)