20th Century Atlas - Ranking Wars (original) (raw)

Wars of the Twentieth Century

Approximately 35 to 40 million soldiers have died in the wars of the Twentieth Century, nearly three quarters of them in the two World Wars. The biggest wars of this century have been...

Military Death Toll	War	Dates
1	20,000,000	Second World War	1937-45
2	8,500,000	First World War	1914-18
3	1,200,000	Korean War	1950-53
4	1,200,000	Chinese Civil War	1945-49
5	1,200,000	Vietnam War	1965-73
6	850,000	Iran-Iraq War	1980-88
7	800,000	Russian Civil War	1918-21
8	400,000	Chinese Civil War	1927-37
9	385,000	French Indochina	1945-54
10	200,000	Mexican Revolution	1911-20
10	200,000	Spanish Civil War	1936-39
12	160,000	French-Algerian War	1954-62
13	150,000	Afghanistan	1980-89
14	130,000	Russo-Japanese War	1904-05
15	100,000	Riffian War	1921-26
15	100,000	First Sudanese Civil War	1956-72
15	100,000	Russo-Polish War	1919-20
15	100,000	Biafran War	1967-70
19	90,000	Chaco War	1932-35
20	75,000	Abyssinian War	1935-36

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Last updated January 1999