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 usually include 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 soldiers, which are the results of war-induced epidemics, famines, atrocities, genocide, etc.

Pre-Modern

Ancient wars

Note 1: The geometric mean is the middle of the quoted range, taken by multiplying together the endpoints and then taking the square root.

Medieval wars

Note: the identity of a single "war" cannot be reliably given in some cases, and some "wars" can be taken to last over more than a human lifetime, e.g. "Reconquista" (711–1492, 781 years) "Muslim conquests in India" (12th to 16th c., 500 years) "Crusades" (ten or more campaigns during the period 1095–1291, 196 years), "Mongol conquests" (1206–1368, 162 years), "early Muslim conquests" (622–750, 128 years), "Hundred Years' War" (1337–1453, 115 years).

Modern

Modern wars with greater than 25,000 deaths by death toll

Modern wars with fewer than 25,000 deaths by death toll

Charts and graphs

Death toll graph - List of wars by death toll through time 1300 CE to present, over 1 million casualties, from the data presented in the above table. - List of wars by death toll through time 1300 CE to present, over 1 million casualties, from the data presented in the above table.

See also

Notes

References

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