|
Death Toll
|
Event
|
|
66,000,000
|
World War 2
|
|
40,000,000
|
Mao Zedong
|
|
30,000,000
|
Chinggis Khan
|
|
27,000,000
|
Famines in British Raj
|
|
20,000,000
|
Taiping Rebellion
|
|
20,000,000
|
Stalin
|
|
19,500,000
|
Ming-Qing Transition
|
|
18,500,000
|
Arab Slave Trade
|
|
17,000,000
|
Timur the Lame
|
|
16,000,000
|
Atlantic Slave Trade
|
|
15,000,000
|
First World War
|
|
15,000,000
|
Kublai Khan
|
|
13,000,000
|
An Lushan
|
|
10,000,000
|
Xin Dynasty
|
|
10,000,000
|
Congo Free State
|
|
9,000,000
|
Russian Civil War
|
|
7,500,000
|
Fall of the Yuan
|
|
7,500,000
|
Thirthy Years War
|
|
7,500,000
|
Chinese Civil War
|
|
7,000,000
|
Fall of Rome
|
|
5,700,000
|
Split of the Mongol Empire
|
|
5,500,000
|
Mahdist Sudan
|
|
5,000,000
|
Time of Troubles
|
|
5,000,000
|
Dungan Revolt
|
|
4,600,000
|
Three Kingdoms
|
|
4,600,000
|
Alagmir
|
|
4,500,000
|
Jebe and Subutai's Expedition
|
|
4,200,000
|
Vietnam War
|
|
4,000,000
|
Napoleonic Wars
|
|
4,000,000
|
Crisis of the Third Century
|
|
3,800,000
|
Second Congo War
|
|
3,500,000
|
Gladiators
|
|
3,500,000
|
Hundred Year Wars
|
|
3,500,000
|
Reconquista
|
|
3,500,000
|
Nadir Shah
|
|
3,000,000
|
Crusades
|
|
3,000,000
|
North Korea
|
|
3,000,000
|
Korean War
|
|
3,000,000
|
Early Muslim Conquests
|
|
2,750,000
|
Sengoku Period
|
|
2,700,000
|
French Wars of Religon
|
|
2,600,000
|
War in Sudan
|
|
2,500,000
|
Peter the Great
|
|
2,300,000
|
Fall of the Mughals
|
|
2,250,000
|
Ottoman-Habsburg Wars
|
|
2,000,000
|
Fang La
|
|
2,000,000
|
Mengistu Haille
|
|
1,800,000
|
Mamelukes
|
|
1,750,000
|
Soviet-Afghan War
|
|
1,670,000
|
Kampuchea
|
|
1,650,000
|
Seven Years War
|
|
1,500,000
|
Age of Warring States
|
|
1,500,000
|
Justinian
|
|
1,500,000
|
Shaka
|
|
1,500,000
|
Mexican Revolution
|
|
1,500,000
|
Partition of British Raj
|
|
1,500,000
|
Bangladeshi War of Independence
|
|
1,500,000
|
Iran-Iraq War
|
|
1,500,000
|
Shah Ismail
|
|
1,500,000
|
Indian Rebellion
|
|
1,400,000
|
Fitnas
|
|
1,400,000
|
Muhammed of Ghur
|
|
1,400,000
|
Mfecane
|
|
1,300,000
|
Latin American Wars of Independence
|
|
1,300,000
|
Mughal Conquest of Northern India
|
|
1,250,000
|
Muhammed Tuqluq
|
|
1,240,000
|
Taungoo Conquests
|
|
1,200,000
|
Aztec Human Sacrifice
|
|
1,100,000
|
Qin Shi Huang Di
|
|
1,100,000
|
Ottoman-Persian Wars
|
|
1,000,000
|
Mayan Collapse
|
|
1,000,000
|
Roman Slave Wars
|
|
1,000,000
|
Albegensian Crusade
|
|
1,000,000
|
Panthay Rebellion
|
|
1,000,000
|
Biafran War
|
|
|
Death Toll
|
Event
|
|
1,000,000
|
Fall of the Gupta
|
|
1,000,000
|
Mahmud of Ghazni
|
|
1,000,000
|
Shah Sher Suri
|
|
940,000
|
Rwandan Genocide
|
|
900,000
|
Gogueryeo-Sui Wars
|
|
900,000
|
Hulagu's Invasion
|
|
900,000
|
Seljuk Conquests
|
|
900,000
|
Tay Song War
|
|
850,000
|
War of the Spanish Succesion
|
|
850,000
|
Gokturks
|
|
830,000
|
Menelik II
|
|
810,000
|
Great Northern War
|
|
800,000
|
Roman-Jewish Wars
|
|
800,000
|
Mozambiquan Civil War
|
|
800,000
|
Maygar Invasions
|
|
800,000
|
Delhi-Yadava Wars
|
|
800,000
|
Mali-Songhay Wars
|
|
800,000
|
Shaybanids
|
|
780,000
|
Frenco-Algerian Wars
|
|
770,000
|
Second Punic War
|
|
750,000
|
Italo-Ethiopian War
|
|
700,000
|
Chinese Conquest of Vietnam
|
|
700,000
|
American Civil War
|
|
700,000
|
Imjin War
|
|
700,000
|
Deccan Sultanates
|
|
700,000
|
Khmer
|
|
690,000
|
Portuguese Conquests and Wars in the Indian Ocean
|
|
670,000
|
Burma-Siam Wars
|
|
650,000
|
Balkan Wars
|
|
640,000
|
Hui Rebellion
|
|
610,000
|
Ly Song War
|
|
600,000
|
Gallic War
|
|
600,000
|
Harsha Vardhana
|
|
600,000
|
Mysore Wars
|
|
600,000
|
Incan Civil War
|
|
550,000
|
Alexander the Great
|
|
550,000
|
Bahmanis-Vijayanagara War
|
|
550,000
|
Byzantine-Sassanid War of 602
|
|
530,000
|
Algerian War of Independence
|
|
500,000
|
Russo-Tartar Wars
|
|
500,000
|
Sino-Dzungar Wars
|
|
500,000
|
Russo-Turkish War
|
|
500,000
|
Angola Civil War
|
|
500,000
|
Ugandan Bush War
|
|
500,000
|
Somalian Wars
|
|
500,000
|
Majapahit Conquests
|
|
500,000
|
Fullani Jihads
|
|
480,000
|
War of the Austrian Succesion
|
|
470,000
|
War of the Triple Alliance
|
|
450,000
|
Cromwell's Invasion of Ireland
|
|
450,000
|
Ahmed Shah Durrani
|
|
440,000
|
Franco-Prussian War
|
|
400,000
|
Kilwa Sultanate
|
|
400,000
|
Third Mithadric War
|
|
400,000
|
Haitian Slave Revolt
|
|
400,000
|
Purge in Indonesia
|
|
400,000
|
Greeco-Turkish War
|
|
390,000
|
French Wars in Indochina
|
|
380,000
|
Great Turkish War
|
|
370,000
|
Spanish Civil War
|
|
360,000
|
Cuban Revolution
|
|
350,000
|
First Punic War
|
|
350,000
|
War of the Allies
|
|
350,000
|
Idi Amin
|
|
350,000
|
Avar Wars
|
|
350,000
|
Nurhaci
|
|
350,000
|
Abbasid Revolution
|
|
325,000
|
Timurid Civil Wars
|
|
310,000
|
Muhhamed Ali of Egypt
|
|
300,000
|
Second Persian War
|
|
300,000
|
Crimean War
|
|
300,000
|
Saddam Hussein
|
|
300,000
|
Charlemagne
|
|
300,000
|
Samori Ture
|
|
300,000
|
Decline of the Fatimids
|
|
