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See also: List of genocides 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 usually 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, genocide etc.
This is a very incomplete list of wars (an estimated 3,023 wars have taken place in recorded human history and 398 are recorded here).[1]
- 60,669,200-84,589,300 – World War II (1939–1945), (see World War II casualties)
- 30,000,000–60,000,000 – Mongol conquests (1206-1324)[2][3][4][5]
- 27,000,000 – Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)[6]
- 25,000,000 – Qing dynasty conquest of Ming Dynasty (1616–1662)[7]
- 20,000,000 – Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864)[8]
- 16,563,868-30,000,000 – World War I/Great War (1914–1918) (see World War I casualties)
- [citation needed]
- 13,000,000 - An Lushan Rebellion (755–763)[9]
- 10,000,000 – Era of Warring States (475 BCE–221 BCE)
- 10,000,000 - Red Eyebrows Rebellion (9-24)
- 8,000,000–12,000,000 – Dungan revolt (1862 –1877)
- 7,500,000 – Chinese Civil War (1927–1949)[10]
- 7,000,000–20,000,000 – Conquests of Tamerlane (1370–1405)[11][12]
- 7,000,000 - Reconquista (711-1492)
- 5,000,000–9,000,000 – Russian Civil War and Foreign Intervention (1917–1922)[13]
- 5,000,000 - Conquests of Aurangzeb (1681-1707)
- 5,000,000 - Gothic War (535-554)
- 5,000,000 – Conquests of Menelik II of Ethiopia (1882–1898)[14][15]
- 4,000,000 - Three Kingdoms War in Ancient China (189-280)
- 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)[16]
- 3,000,000–7,000,000 – Yellow Turban Rebellion (184–205)
- 3,000,000 - Second Northern War (1655-1660)
- 3,000,000 - French Wars of Religion (1562-1598)
- 3,000,000 - Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)
- 2,500,000–5,400,000 – Second Congo War/Great War of Africa (1998–2003)[17][18][19][20]
- 2,500,000–4,000,000 – Conquests of the Hunnic Empire (408–469)
- 2,500,000 – Russian–Circassian War (1763–1864)
- 2,000,000–4,000,000 – Huguenot Wars (1562-1598)[21]
- 2,000,000 - French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)
- 2,000,000 - Crusades (1096-1272)
- 2,000,000 – Shaka's conquests (1816–1828)[22]
- 2,000,000 - Fang La Rebellion (1120-1122)
- 1,500,000 - Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962)
- 1,200,000[23]-3,000,000[citation needed] – Korean War (1950–1953)
- 1,102,000-3,886,026[citation needed] – Vietnam War/Second Indochina War (1955-1975)
- 1,000,000-3,000,000 - Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)
- 1,000,000–2,000,000 – Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)[24]
- 1,000,000 - War in Venezuela (1830-1903)
- 1,000,000 - Sino–Tibetan War (1930-1932)
- 1,000,000 - First Indochina War (1946-1954)
- 1,000,000 - Dutch Revolt (1568-1648)
- 1,000,000 – Gallic Wars (58 BCE–52 BCE)
- 1,000,000 – Iran–Iraq War/First Persian Gulf War (1980–1988)[25]
- 1,000,000 – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)[26]
- 1,000,000 – Second Sudanese Civil War (1983–2005)
- 1,000,000 – Panthay Rebellion (1856–1873)
- 1,000,000 – Nien Rebellion (1853–1868)
- 957,865-1,622,865 – Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989)[27][28][29]
- 900,000–1,000,000 – Mozambican Civil War (1975–1994)
- 868,000–1,400,000 – Seven Years' War (1756–1763)[30][31]
- 868,000 – English Civil War (1642–1651)
- 800,000–1,000,000 – Rwandan Civil War (1990–1993)
- 800,000 – First Congo War (1996–1997)
- 750,000 – American Civil War (1861–1865)[32]
- 620,000 - Irish Confederate War(1641-1653)
- 600,000 - Colombian conflict (1964–present) (1964–present)[33]
- 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–present)
- 529,000 – Turkish War of Independence (1919–1923)
- 500,000–1,000,000 – Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
- 500,000+ – Assyrian wars of conquest (8th–7th Century BCE)
- 500,000 - First Sudanese Civil War (1955 - 1972)
- 500,000 – Angolan Civil War (1975–2002)
- 500,000 – Ugandan Bush War (1979–1986)
- 480,000+ - Cimbrian War (113 BC-101 BC)
- 440,000+ – Kitos War (115-117)
- 400,000–1,100,000 – First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE)
- 400,000–1,000,000 – Paraguayan War (1864–1870)
- 400,000+ – Chinese invasion of Korea (612)
- 400,000 – Civil war in Afghanistan (1989–92), Civil war in Afghanistan (1992–96) and Civil war in Afghanistan (1996–2001) (1989-2001)[34]
- 400,000 – War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714)
- 371,000 – Continuation War (1941–1944)
- 350,000 – Third Northern War (1700–1721)[35]
- 315,000–735,000 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651)[36]
- 300,000–3,000,000[37] – Bangladesh Liberation War (1971)
- 300,000 – Frist Burundian Civil War (1972)
- 300,000 – Second Burundian Civil War (1993-2005)[38]
- 285,000 - Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936)
- 272,000-329,745 - War on Terror (2001–present)[39]
- 270,000–300,000 – Crimean War (1854–1856)
- 234,000 – Philippine–American War (1899–1912)[40]
- 230,000–2,000,000 – Eighty Years' War (1568–1648)
- 230,000–1,400,000 – Ethiopian Civil War (1974–1991)
- 220,000 - Xinhai Revolution (1911-1912)
- 220,000 – First Liberian Civil War (1989–1996)[41]
- 210,000 - Internal conflict in Burma (1948–present)
- 200,000–1,000,000 – Albigensian Crusade (1208–1259)[42][43]
- 200,000–800,000 – Warlord Era in China (1916–1928)
- 200,000—500,000 — Lord's Resistance Army insurgency (1987–present)[44]
- 200,000–400,000 – Indonesian National Revolution (1945–1949)
- 200,000-300,000 - Cambodian Civil War (1967-1975)
- 200,000–220,000 – Arauco War (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)[45][46]
- 200,000 – Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996)
- 192,000 - Arauco War (1536-1810)
- 190,000 – Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)
- 180,000–300,000 – La Violencia (1948–1960)
- 178,258-461,520 – War in Darfur (2003–present)[47]
- 176,913-189,736 – Iraq War/Third Persian Gulf War (2003–2011), see Casualties of the Iraq War, part of the War on Terror[48]
- 175,300 - Cambodian–Vietnamese War (1977-1989)
- 170,000-200,000 - War in the Vendée (1793-1796)
- 170,000 – Greek War of Independence (1821–1830)
- 161,528 - First Balkan War (1912-1913)
- 150,000 - 300,000 - Second Liberian Civil War (1999-2003)
- 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)
- 140,203 - Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901)
- 138,800-320,100 - Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (1918-2003)[49][50]
- 130,000 - Nine Year War (1594-1603)
- 125,000 – Eritrean-Ethiopian War (1998–2000)
- 120,000–384,000 – Great Turkish War (1683–1699) (see Ottoman-Habsburg wars)
- 120,000 - Islamic insurgency in the Philippines (1969–present)[51]
- 120,000 – Third Servile War (73 BCE–71 BCE)
- 116,000-500,000 – Yugoslav Wars 1991–1995
- 115,311 - Arab-Israeli conflict (1920–present)[52]
- 106,800+ - Mexican Drug War (2006–present)[53][54]
- 104,000-250,000 - Bosnian War (1992–1995)
- 100,500 – Chaco War (1932–1935)
- 100,000–1,000,000 – Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962)
- 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)
- 100,000-200,000 - Congo Crisis (1960-1965)
- 100,000-120,000 – Syrian civil war (2011–present), see Casualties of the Syrian civil war[55]
- 100,000-120,000 - First War of Scottish Independence (1296-1328)
- 100,000 - Insurgency in Laos (1975 - 2007)[56]
- 100,000 – Harrying of the North (1069–1070)
- 100,000 – Thousand Days War (1899–1902)
- 100,000 – German Peasants' War (1524–1525)[57]
- 97,000-107,000 - Aceh War (1873-1914)[58]
- 90,969 - Mahdist War (1881-1889)
- 90,000+ - Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War (1018-1019)[59]
- 85,000-235,000 - 1991 uprisings in Iraq (1991)[60][61][62]
- 80,000 – Third Punic War (149 BCE–146 BCE)
- 78,000-88,000 - Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992)
- 75,000–200,000 – Wars of Alexander the Great (336 BCE–323 BCE)
- 75,000 – Second Boer War (1899–1902)
- 70,000–400,000 – Greco-Turkish War, part of the Turkish War of Independence
- 73,000 - Scottish Civil war (1644-1651)
- 70,000+ - Laotian Civil War (1953–75)
- 70,000 – Boudica's uprising (60–61)
- 69,000 – Internal conflict in Peru (1980–present)
- 63,500-88,500 - Mozambican War of Independence (1964-1974)[63]
- 60,000+ - War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1516)
- 60,000–432,000 Turkish-Armenian War, part of the Turkish War of Independence
- 60,000 – Sri Lanka/Tamil conflict (1983–2009)
- 60,000 - Ituri conflict (1999-2007)[64]
- 60,000 – Nicaraguan Revolution (1972–91)
- 55,000 – War of the Pacific (1879–1884)
- 54,402 - 74,402 - Second Chechen War (1999-2009)
- 50,605 - Second Balkan War (1913)
- 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)
- 50,400 - Second Matabele War (1896-1897)
- 50,000 – Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) (see Wars involving England)
- 48,311 - First Sino-Japanese War
- 47,246—61,603 — War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (2001–present), part of the War on Terror[48]
- 45,852 — 78,946 — War in North-West Pakistan (2004–present), part of the War on Terror[48]
- 45,000 – 50,000 – American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)
- 45,000 – Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1979-2013)[65]
- 45,000 – Greek Civil War (1945–1949)
- 43,388 - Communist insurgency in the Philippines (1942–present)
- 42,000+ - Pyrrhic War (280 BC–275 BC)
- 41,000–100,000 – Kashmiri insurgency (1989–present)
- 40,000 – Franco-Turkish War, part of the Turkish War of Independence
- 40,000–57,000 – Second Persian Gulf War/Operation Desert Storm (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)
- 34,000 - Iranian-Kurdish conflict (1918–present)[66]
- 34,000 - Ethnic conflict in Nagaland (1954–present)[67]
- 33,000 - Italian War of 1551-1559 (1551-1559)
- 32,000 - First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895-1896)
- 30,000+ - First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826)
- 30,000+ - Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988-1994)
- 30,000 - Mughal-Rajput War (1558-1578) (1558-1578)
- 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
- 26,278 - Satsuma Rebellion (1877)
- 26,500-87,000 - Islamic uprising in Syria (1979-1982)
- 26,200-206,200 - Donghak Peasant Revolution (1894-1895)
- 25,000 - Insurgency in Northeast India (1964–present)[68]
- 25,000–30,000 – Libyan civil war (2011)
- 25,000 - Polish-Ukrainian War (1918-1919)
- 25,000 - War of Canudos (1896 - 1897)
- 25,000 - Shia insurgency in Yemen (2004–present)[69]
- 23,384 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (December 1971)
- 23,000 – Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994)
- 22,000+ - Italian War of 1521-26 (1521-1526)
- 21,100 - Italo-Turkish War (1911-1912)
- 20,136 - Musket Wars (1807-1842)
- 20,035 - Anglo-Persian War (1856–1857)
- 20,000+ - Second War of Scottish Independence (1337-1357)
- 20,000+ – War in Abkhazia (1992–1993) (1992–1993)
- 20,000 - Ragamuffin War (1835-1845)[70]
- 19,000+ – Mexican–American War (1846–1848)
- 18,806 - Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895) (1895)
- 18,069-20,069 - First Opium War (1839-1842)[71]
- 17,800 - 74,000 Hungarian Revolution of 1848 (1848-1849)
- 17,200 - First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-1842)[72]
- 16,765 - 17,065 - Balochistan conflict (1948–present)[73][74][75]
- 16,200+ - War of the Rough Wooing (1543-1550)
- 15,000 - 20,000 - Bougainville Conflict (1990-1998)
- 15,000 – 20,000 – Croatian War of Independence (1991–1995)
- 15,000 - Nigerian Sharia conflict (1953–present)[76][77][78]
- 14,850 - Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880)
- 14,400–24,400 – 1948 Palestine War (1947–1949)
- 14,077 - Mau Mau Uprising (1952-1960)
- 14,000–24,483 – Six-Day War (1967)
- 14,000 - 21,000 - Western Sahara conflict (1970–present)
- 13,929 - Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997-1999)[79]
- 13,812 - Naxalite-Maoist insurgency (1967–present)[80][81]
- 13,000-25,000 - Austro-Prussian War (1866)
- 13,000-24,000 - Despenser War (1321-1322)
- 13,000+ - First Italian War (1494-1498)
- 12,000+ - Italian War of 1542-1546 (1542-1546)
- 13,000 – Nepalese Civil War (1996–2006)
- 13,000 - Ottoman–Saudi War (1811-1818)
- 12,000 - Ouaddai War (1909-1911)
- 12,370 - Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667)
- 11,200-13,000 - Battle of Zhuolu (2,500 BCE)
- 11,053 – Malayan Emergency (1948–1960)
- 11,000 - 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt (1907)
- 11,000 – Spanish-American War (1898)
- 10,800-13,400 - Second Italian War of Independence (1859)
- 10,000–21,000 – Yom Kippur War (1973)
- 10,100 - First Matabele War (1893-1894)
- 10,000 – Amadu's Jihad (1810–1818)
- 10,000 - Nazi Germany invasion of Czechoslovakia (1938)
- 9,000+ - Dirty War (1976-1983)
- 9,000+ - Second Italian War (1499-1504)
- 8,500 - Insurgency in Ogaden (1995-2008)
- 8,500 – Toyota War (1986–87) part of the Chadian-Libyan conflict
- 8,136+ — Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal) (2011–present)[82]
- 8,000 - Unification of Saudi Arabia (1902-1932)
- 8,000 – War of the Confederation (1836–1839)
- 7,727 - Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
- 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)
- 6,500+ - Ethio-Somali War (1977-1978)
- 6,000 - Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present)[83]
- 5,800-9,000 - Contestado War (1912-1916)
- 5,670+ - 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine (1936-1939)
- 5,641 - Sudanese nomadic conflicts (2009–present)[84][85]
- 5,573–13,521 – War of Attrition (1967–70)
- 5,500 - Prayer Book Rebellion (1549)
- 5,469 - South Thailand insurgency (2004–present)[86]
- 5,400 - Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920)
- 5,000–12,000 – South Yemen Civil War (1986)
- 5,000 – 6,000 – Brazilian War of Independence (1822–1823)
- 5,000 - 5,500 - First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1654)
- 5,000 - Casamance conflict[87]
- 5,000 – Turkish invasion of Cyprus (1974)
- 5,000 - Chilean Civil War of 1891 (1891)[88]
- 5,000 – Franco-Syrian War (1919–1921)
- 4,812-5,279 - Georgian–Ossetian conflict (1918–20) (1918-1920)
- 4,600 – Sino-Indian War (1962)
- 4,382 - Zaian War (1914-1921)
- 4,186 - Latvian War of Independence (1918-1920)
- 4,027 - French conquest of Morocco (1911-1912)
- 4,000+ - Bambatha Rebellion (1906)
- 4,000 - 10,000 Conflict in the Niger Delta (2004–present)[89]
- 4,000 - 1920 Iraqi Revolt (1920)
- 4,000 – Irish Civil War (1922–23)
- 4,000 - Boshin War (1868-1869)
- 4,000 - Kumul Rebellion (1931-1934)
- 4,000 - Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672-1674)
- 3,800 - Albanian Rebellion of 1997 (1997)
- 3,781 – War of the Camps (1985–1988), part of the Lebanese Civil War
- 3,699 - Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen (1992–present)[90]
- 3,600 - King Philip's War (1675 - 1678)
- 3,500 - Platine War (1851 - 1852)
- 3,533 - Dominican Civil War (1965)
- 3,529 - The Troubles (1969 - 1998)[91]
- 3,524 - Northern Mali conflict (2012-2013)
- 3,400–10,000 Jordanian-Palestinian Civil War
- 3,250 - Constitutionalist Revolution (1932)
- 3,203 – Suez War (1956)
- 3,036-4,036 - Bambatha Rebellion (1906)
- 3,007 - War of the Golden Stool (1900)
- 3,000-6,000 - Negro Rebellion (1912)[92][93]
- 3,000 - Second Ivorian Civil War (2010 - 2011)[94]
- 3,000 – Civil war in Côte d'Ivoire (2002–2007)
- 2,899 – New Zealand Land Wars (1845–1872)
- 2,781 - Iranian Revolution (1978-1979)[95]
- 2,751 - Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)[96]
- 2,613-3,613 - British expedition to Tibet (1903-1904)
- 2,604–7,000 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 (1947–1948)
- 2,650 - Pontiac's War (1763-1766)
- 2,557 - Sudan internal conflict (2011–present) (20011-present)[97][98][99]
- 2,523 - Second Melillan campaign (1909-1910)
- 2,500+ - Creek War (1813-1814)
- 2,300+ – Saudi-Rashidi War (1903–1907)
- 2,200+ - Northwest Indian War (1785-1795)
- 2,198 - Insurgency in the North Caucasus (2009–present)[100][101][102][103][104]
- 2,118 - Revolution of 1905 (1905-1907)
- 2,100 – Saudi-Yemeni War (1934)
- 2,000–7,000 – Kosovo War (1998–1999)
- 2,000-3,000 - Battle of Sark (1448)
- 2,000-3,000 - Xinjiang conflict (1989–present)
- 2,000+ - Battle of Otterburn (1388)
- 2,000 - 2011 Yemeni Revolution (2011 - 2012)
- 2,000 - Six-Day War (2000) (2000)[105]
- 2,000 – Football War (1969)
- 2,000 - Costa Rican Civil War (1948)
- 2,000 - 2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes (2010)[106][107][108]
- 2,000 – Irish War of Independence (1919–21)
- 2,000 – Uganda–Tanzania war (1978–79)
- 2,000 – Turko-Cypriot War (1974)
- 2,000 - Ikhwan Revolt (1927-1930)
- 2,000 - War of the Bucket (1325)
- 1'000-2,000 - Black War (1828–32)
- 1,724 – War of Lapland (1945)
- 1,700+ - Snake War (1864-1868)
- 1,643-2,237 - War of Transnistria (1992)[109][110][111][112]
- 1,600 – Mountain War (Lebanon) (1983–1984), part of the Lebanese Civil War
- 1,554 - South Yemen insurgency (2009–present)[113][114]
- 1,500 - Battle of Piperdean (1436)
- 1,500 - Monmouth Rebellion (1685)
- 1,500 – Romanian Revolution (1989)
- 1,500 – Second Lebanon War (2006)
- 1,400 - 1999 East Timorese crisis (1999-2000)
- 1,392 - Al-Khurma dispute/First Nejd-Hejaz war (1918-1919)
- 1,371-1,397 - 2011–present Libyan factional fighting (2011–present)
- 1,310-2,026 - Chadian Civil War (2005–10) (2005-2010)
- 1,229 - Basque conflict (1959-2011)[115]
- 1,227-5,600 - Kargil War (1999)[116][117][118][119]
- 1,179–1,430 – Gaza War (2008–09)
- 1,119 - Political violence in Egypt, 2013 (2013–present)[120]
- 1,118 - Austrian Civil War (1934)
- 1,001 - Dutch intervention in Bali (1906) (1906)
- 1,000+ - Bathurst War (1824)
- 1,000+ - Thai-Laotian Border War (1987-1988)
- 1,000-1,500 - Cabinda conflict (1994–present)[121]
- 1,000 – Zapatista uprising in Chiapas (1994)
- 1,000 - Khuzestan conflict (1924–present)
- 1,000 – Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821)
- 1,000 - Italian invasion of Albania (1939)
- 1,000 - 1991–92 South Ossetia War (1991-1992)[122]
- 874 - Falklands War (1982)
- 846 - 2011 Egyptian revolution (2011)[123]
- 835+ - First Samoan Civil War (1886-1894)
- 835 - First Barbary War (1801–05)
- 750 - Great Sioux War (1876)
- 740 - Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation (1962–1966)
- 700-800 - Anglo-Aro War (1901-1902)
- 680+ - Dakota War (1862)
- 659-2,496 - Russia–Georgia war (2008)[124][125][126][127][128]
- 655+ - Guinea-Bissau Civil War (1998-1999)
- 626 - Korean DMZ Conflict (1966-1969)
- 518 - Cenepa War (1995)
- 500+ - Nauruan Tribal War (1878-1888)
- 500+ - War of the League of Cognac (1525-1530)
- 466 - Easter Rising (1916)
- 450+ - Marian civil war (1568-1573
- 449 - First Boer War (1880-1881)
- 400+ - Anglo-Zanzibar War (1896)
- 391+ - M23 rebellion (2012–present)[129][130][131]
- 367 - Communist Insurgency War (1968-1989)
- 339 - Sand War (1963)
- 338 - Tunisian revolution (2010-2011)
- 320 - Insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia (2001)
- 300+ - Red Cloud's War (1866-1868)
- 300+ - Ghost Dance War (1890-1891)
- 260 - Owens Valley Indian War (1862-18667)
- 221 - Senussi Campaign (1915-1917)
- 221 - Baptist War (1831-1832)
- 213-523 - Jebel Akhdar War (1954–1959)
- 201 - Operation Uphold Democracy (1994-1995)
- 200+ - Mauritania-Senegal Border War (1989-1991)
- 200+ - Nez Perce War (1877)
- 200 - Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon (2011–present)
- 170 - War Of The Stray Dog (1925)
- 164 - Utah War (1857–58)
- 176 - Flagstaff War (1845-1846)
- 174-194 - United States occupation of Veracruz (1914)[132]
- 171 - Agacher Strip War (1985)
- 159+ - Sino-Soviet border conflict (1969)
- 144+ - Djiboutian-Eritrean border conflict (2008)
- 130+ - Powder River War (1865)
- 128 - North-West Rebellion (1885)
- 110 - Tajikistan insurgency (2010–present)
- 107 - Dutch intervention in Bali (1908) (1908)
- 100-200 - Brooks-Baxter War (1874)
- 100-140 - West Virginia Coal War (1920-1921)
- 100+ - Djiboutian Civil War (1991-1994)
- 100+ - Second Samoan Civil War (1898-1899)
- 100+ - Solomon Islands Civil War (1998-2003)
- 100 - Adwan Rebellion (1923)
- 98 - Bahraini uprising (2011–present) (2011–present)
- 97-105 - Sinai insurgency (2011–present)
- 95 - 2013 Guinea clashes (2013)[133]
- 84-134 - Lahad Datu standoff (2013)[134][135]
- 80+ - Paiute War (1860)
- 80 - Modoc War (1872-1873)
- 70 - Bleeding Kansas (1854–1861)
- 69-199 Colorado Coalfield War (1913-1914)
- 64 - Invasion of Grenada (1983)
- 61 - White River War (1879)
- 57 - Second Barbary War (1815)
- 51 - Battle of the Severn (1655)
- 47+ - Allied Democratic Forces insurgency (2007–present) (2007–present)[136]
- 42 - Dissident Irish Republican campaign (1998–present)
- 27+ - Battle of Solway Moss (1542)
- 27 - Hanish Islands conflict (1995)
- 25+ - San Elizario Salt War (1877-1878)
- 22 - Missouri Mormon War (1838)
- 24 - Lincoln County War (1878)
- 20-34 - Pleasant Valley War (1882-1892)
- 19 - Chilcotin War (1864)
- 17 - Watermelon War (1856)
- 17 - IRA Border Campaign (1956-1962)
- 15+ - Mason County War (1875-1976)
- 14 - Battle of Muizenberg (1785)
- 14 - Caprivi Conflict (1998-1999)
- 10 - Illinois Mormon War (1844)
- 9 - Morrisite War (1862)
- 9 - Crow War (1887)
- 8 - Sokehs Rebellion (1910-1911)
- 7 - Battle of Sugar Point (1898)
- 7 - IRA Northern Campaign (1942-1944)
- 6-7 - October Revolution (1917)
- 3 - Sheepshooters War (1895-1902)
- 3 - Bluff War (1914-1915)
- 3 - Yaqui Uprising (1896)
- 2 - Posey War (1923)
- 3 - Crazy Snake's War 1909
- 2+ - Pink's War (1925)
- 1 - Bannock Uprising (1895)
- 1 - Coconut War (1980)
List of Wars[]
| Name | Start | End | Casualties | Injuries | Winner(s) | Loser(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World War II | 1939 | 1945 | 80,000,000 | - | Allies | Axis |
See also[]
- War: Nine largest wars (by death toll)
- Lists of wars
- List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll
- List of ongoing military conflicts
- List of genocides by death toll
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