The Cost of WWII

Statistics and Death

compiled by David W. Tschanz, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

MINIMUM GLOBAL DEATHS IN THOUSANDS
CountryMilitaryCivilianTotal
Soviet Union8,00016,00024,000
Poland1235,6805,803
China1,3003,0004,300
Germany3,5007804,280
Japan1,3001,0002,300
Yugoslavia3058001,105
Philippines--1,000
France213350563
Romania300200500
Hungary200290490
Greece88325413
Italy242153395
Britain25493347
United States2926298
Holland16234259
Malaysia-150150
Indonesia-100100
Finland821193
Belgium127688
Canada45-45
India36-36
Australia &
New Zealand
34-34
Others5001,5002,000
TOTAL16,84230,74848,599

Note: Civilians include those killed in the Holocaust counted in the individual country totals. Soviet civilian death include those killed in the Holocaust, people forcibly absorbed into the USSR after 1939, gulag victims, prisoners of war executed after return from German camps and those deported within the USSR during the war. The German figure includes 300,000 Austrians. Source: Europe: A History by Norman Davies


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