World War II casualties
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World War II military casualties
Allied soldiers killed
- Albania: 20,000
- Australia: 23,400
- Belgium: 12,000
- Brazil: 493
- Bulgaria (from 1944): 18,000
- Canada: 43,000
- China: 2,500,000 (CCP and KMT forces)
- Czechoslovakia: 46,000
- Denmark: 1,800
- Ethiopia: 5,000
- Finland (from 1944): 1,000
- France and Free French Forces: 210,000
- Greece: 88,300
- Empire of India: 36,000
- Italy (from 1943): 17,500
- Luxembourg: 4,000
- Mongolia: 3,000
- Netherlands: 7,900
- New Zealand: 11,625
- Norway: 2,000
- Philippines: 27,000
- Poland: 123,000
- Romania (from 1944): 5,000
- South Africa: 6,841
- Soviet Union: 11,200,000
- United Kingdom: 403,000
- United States: 407,000
- Yugoslavia: 300,000
Total Allied soldiers killed: approximately 16.2 million
Axis Soldiers Killed
- Bulgaria (to 1944): 9,000
- Finland (to 1944): 81,000
- Germany: 5,000,000 (including pow deaths)
- Hungary: 200,000
- Italy (to 1943): 60,000
- Japan: 1,300,000 (includes casualties from pre WW2 theatres)
- Romania (to 1944): 290,000
- Spain: 3,334 (all volunteers)
- Thailand: 5,647
- Vichy France: 1,222
Total Axis soldiers killed: approximately 6,800,000.
Total soldiers killed (all): approximately 23 million.
Civilians killed
- Albania: 11,000
- Australia: 735 Austria: 125,000
- Belgium: 76,000
- Bulgaria: 10,000
- China: 7,000,000
- Czechoslovakia: 294,000
- Denmark: 2,000
- Ethiopia: 5,000
- Finland: 2,000
- France: 350,000
- Germany: 2,760,000 (including 200,000 - 2,000,000 World War II evacuation and expulsion)
- Greece: 325,000
- Hungary: 290,000
- Empire of India: 2,150,000 (median estimate; estimates for deaths from the Bengal famine of 1943 alone varies from 2 million to 4 million)
- Italy: 153,000
- Japan: 672,000
- Netherlands: 200,000 (including 105,000 Dutch Jews)
- Norway: 7,000
- Philippines: at least 100,000
- Poland: 5,680,000 (including Poles of Jewish origin)
- Romania: 200,000
- Soviet Union: 20,000,000 (including purges under Stalin at that time)
- Thailand: 310
- United Kingdom: 92,700
- United States: 6,000
- Yugoslavia: 1,200,000
Total Civilians killed: up to 57 million
Total people killed in World War II: up to 80 million
See Also
References
- Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Twentieth Century Hemoclysm
- ^ Australian War Memorial website article, Australian Military Statistics: WWII - A Global Perspective. June 2005.