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This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by the war. These numbers usually include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as the wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are the results of war-induced epidemics, famines, atrocities, genocide, etc.
Newer estimates place the total death toll at 650,000 to 850,000. [87] 148 of the Union dead were U.S. Marines. [91] [92] ca. ^ Civil War April 2, 2012, Doctor David Hacker after extensive research offered new casualty rates higher by 20%; his work has been accepted by the academic community and is represented here.
As of July 19, 2021, according to the U.S. Department of Defense casualty website, there were 4,431 total deaths (including both killed in action and non-hostile) and 31,994 wounded in action (WIA) as a result of the Iraq War.
Note: Table omits the deaths of four Department of Defense civilian employees killed in action in support of operations in Afghanistan and other countries. Publicized incidents of multiple deaths of U.S. service members in the war. March 1–18, 2002 – Eight U.S. soldiers were killed and another 72 were wounded in Operation Anaconda.
3,595,000. Civilian deaths in the Vietnam War[edit] See also: List of massacres in Vietnam. Lewy estimates that 40,000 South Vietnamese civilians were assassinated by the PAVN/VC; 300,000 were killed as a result of combat in South Vietnam, and 65,000 were killed in North Vietnam for a total of 405,000 killed.
Data shows what Moscow hides. BRUSSELS (AP) — Nearly 50,000 Russian men have died in the war in Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of Russia’s war dead. Two ...
During the War in Afghanistan, according to the Costs of War Project the war killed 176,000 people in Afghanistan: 46,319 civilians, 69,095 military and police and at least 52,893 opposition fighters. However, the death toll is possibly higher due to unaccounted deaths by "disease, loss of access to food, water, infrastructure, and/or other ...
Classification of casualties. Compiling or estimating the numbers of deaths and wounded caused during wars and other violent conflicts is a controversial subject.Historians often put forward many different estimates of the numbers killed and wounded during World War II.