User:PenangLion/War sandbox

= List of wars by death toll = 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 battle or other military wartime actions, as well as the wartime/war-related deaths of soldiers which are the results of war-induced epidemics, famines, atrocities, genocide, etc.

Wars with greater than 2.5 million deaths
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Wars in excess of 2.5 million deaths
! rowspan="2" class="unsortable" style="width: 1%;"| ! rowspan="2" style="width: 20%;"|War ! rowspan="2" style="width: 15%;"|Date ! rowspan="2" class="unsortable" |Combatants ! rowspan="2" style="width: 12%;"|Location ! colspan="2" |Death toll ! style="width: 12%;"|Low est. ! style="width: 12%;"|High est. !1
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Second World War
 * style="text-align: center;" |1939 – 1945
 * Allies 
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Soviet Union
 * 🇺🇸 United States
 * China
 * ...and other countries
 * ...and other countries

!2
 * Axis
 * Nazi Germany
 * Facist Italy
 * Empire of Japan
 * ...and other countries
 * Worldwide
 * style="text-align: right; width: 10%;"|55,000,000
 * style="text-align: right; width: 10%;"|85,000,000
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Ming-Qing War
 * style="text-align: center;" |1618 – 1683
 * Qing dynasty and allies
 * Ming defectors
 * Joseon
 * VOC
 * VOC


 * Ming dynasty and allies
 * Tiandihui
 * Yehe Nara clan
 * Southern Ming dynasty
 * Kingdom of Tungning

!3
 * Separatists
 * Shun dynasty
 * Xi dynasty
 * Kingdom of Shu
 * China
 * style="text-align: right;" |25,000,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |25,000,000
 * style="text-align: center" |

Taiping Rebellion
 * style="text-align: center;" |1851 – 1864
 * Qing dynasty and allies
 * 🇫🇷 France
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

!4
 * Heavenly Kingdom and rebels
 * Nian rebels
 * Red Turban rebels
 * Small Swords Society
 * Miao rebels
 * Du Wenxiu rebels
 * Islamic rebels
 * Black Flag Army
 * China
 * style="text-align: right;" |20,000,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |70,000,000
 * style="text-align: center" |

Conquests of Genghis Khan
 * style="text-align: center;" |1206 – 1227
 * Mongol Empire and allies
 * Qocho
 * Karluks
 * Karluks

!5 Second Sino-Japanese War
 * Various Eurasian states
 * Jin dynasty
 * Khwarazmian Empire
 * Later Liao
 * Qara Khitai
 * Western Xia
 * Volga Bulgaria
 * Kievan Rus'
 * Eurasia
 * style="text-align: right;" |18,500,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |37,750,000
 * style="text-align: center"|
 * style="text-align: center;" |1937 – 1945
 * China
 * Second United Front
 * Nationalists
 * Communists
 * Foreign support:
 * Nazi Germany
 * Soviet Union
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * 🇺🇸 United States
 * 🇺🇸 United States

!6
 * Empire of Japan and allies
 * Manchukuo
 * Mengjiang
 * Chinese collaborationists
 * Reformed Gov.
 * East Hebei
 * Provisional Gov.
 * Wang Jingwei regime
 * China
 * style="text-align: right;" |15,000,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |20,000,000
 * style="text-align: center" |

First World War
 * style="text-align: center;" |1914 – 1918
 * Entente Powers
 * 🇫🇷 France
 * Kingdom of Italy
 * 🇯🇵 Empire of Japan
 * Russian Empire
 * British Empire
 * 🇺🇸 United States
 * ...and other countries
 * ...and other countries

!7
 * Central Powers
 * German Empire
 * Austria-Hungary
 * Ottoman Empire
 * 🇧🇬 Tsardom of Bulgaria
 * Worldwide
 * style="text-align: right;" |15,000,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |22,000,000
 * style="text-align: center" |

An–Shi Disturbances
 * style="text-align: center;" |755 – 763
 * Tang dynasty and allies
 * Uyghur Khaganate
 * Abbasid Caliphate
 * Abbasid Caliphate

!8
 * Yan dynasty
 * China
 * style="text-align: right;" |13,000,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |36,000,000
 * style="text-align: center" |

Conquests of Timur
 * style="text-align: center;" |1370 – 1405
 * Timurid Empire

!9 Xin-Han interregnum
 * Various Eurasian states
 * Chagatai Khanate
 * District of Branković
 * Golden Horde
 * Mamluk Sultanate
 * Ottoman Sultanate
 * Tughlaq dynasty
 * ...and other states
 * Eurasia
 * style="text-align: right;" |12,000,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |17,000,000
 * style="text-align: center"|
 * style="text-align: center;" |21 – 37
 * Han dynasty
 * Xuan Han administration
 * Eastern Han dynasty
 * Eastern Han dynasty


 * Xin dynasty and separatists
 * Cheng dynasty
 * Wang Lang's rebels

!10 Dungan Revolt
 * Peasant rebels
 * Lulin rebels
 * Red Eyebrows rebels
 * China
 * style="text-align: right;" |10,000,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |10,000,000
 * style="text-align: center"|
 * style="text-align: center;" |1862 – 1877
 * Qing dynasty and allies
 * Hui Muslim loyalists
 * Khufiyya order
 * Shanxi Gedimu loyalists
 * Various defected warlords
 * Foreign support:
 * Russian Empire
 * Russian Empire

!11 Chinese Civil War
 * Kashgaria and rebels
 * Dungan rebels
 * Khotanese rebels
 * Kyrgyz rebels
 * Taranchi Sultanate of Ili
 * Foreign support:
 * United Kingdom
 * Ottoman Empire
 * China
 * style="text-align: right;" |8,000,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |20,000,000
 * style="text-align: center"|
 * style="text-align: center;" |1927 – 1949
 * China
 * Nationalists
 * NRA
 * ROC Armed Forces
 * Foreign support:
 * 🇺🇸 United States
 * 🇺🇸 United States

!12 Red Turban Rebellions
 * Communists
 * Red Army
 * PLA
 * CSR
 * Jiangxi–Fujian Soviet
 * Fujian
 * Inner Mongolia
 * Foreign support:
 * Soviet Union
 * China
 * style="text-align: right;" |8,000,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |11,692,000
 * style="text-align: center" |
 * style="text-align: center;" |1350 – 1368
 * Yuan dynasty and allies
 * Principality of Liang
 * Northern Yuan dynasty
 * Goryeo
 * Goryeo


 * Red Turban rebels
 * Northern rebels:
 * Song dynasty
 * Ming dynasty
 * Western Wu dynasty
 * Southern rebels:
 * Tianwan dynasty
 * Chen Han dynasty
 * Ming Xia dynasty

!13 Russian Civil War
 * Seperatists
 * Kingdom of Zhou
 * Kingdom of Wu
 * Fujian Muslim rebels
 * Various warlords
 * China
 * style="text-align: right;" |7,500,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |7,500,000
 * style="text-align: center" |
 * style="text-align: center;" |1917 – 1923
 * Bolsheviks
 * Russian SFSR
 * Ukrainian SSR
 * Byelorussian SSR
 * Transcaucasian SFSR
 * ...and other states
 * ...and other states


 * Whites
 * South Russia
 * Russian State
 * Eastern Okraina
 * Prov. Priamurye Gov.
 * ...and other states

!14 Mughal–Maratha Wars
 * Seperatists
 * 🇵🇱 Poland
 * Finland
 * Ukraine
 * 🇪🇪 Estonia
 * ...and other states
 * Eurasia
 * style="text-align: right;" |7,000,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |12,500,000
 * style="text-align: center" |
 * style="text-align: center;" |1658 – 1707
 *  Maratha Empire
 *  Maratha Empire

!15 Mahdist War
 * Mughal Empire
 * South Asia
 * style="text-align: right;" |5,000,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |5,000,000
 * style="text-align: center" |
 * style="text-align: center;" |1881 – 1899
 * Egypt and allies
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * Ethiopian Empire
 * Kingdom of Italy
 * Congo Free State
 * Congo Free State

!16 Thirty Years' War
 * Mahdist State
 * Northeast Africa
 * style="text-align: right;" |5,000,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |5,000,000
 * style="text-align: center" |
 * style="text-align: center;" |1618 – 1648
 * Anti-Imperial Alliance
 * prior to 1635:
 * Kingdom of Bohemia
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden
 * Palatinate
 * Savoy
 * ...and other states
 * post-1635 Peace of Prague:
 * undefined
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden
 * undefined
 * Hesse-Kassel
 * Hesse-Kassel

!17 Napoleonic Wars
 * Imperial Alliance
 * prior to 1635:
 * Habsburg Monarchy
 * 🇪🇸 Spanish Empire
 * undefined
 * Catholic League
 * post-1635 Peace of Prague:
 * Holy Roman Empire
 * 🇪🇸 Spanish Empire
 * undefined
 * Central Europe
 * style="text-align: right;" |4,000,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |8,500,000
 * style="text-align: center" |
 * style="text-align: center;" |1803 – 1815
 * Coalition forces
 * undefined
 * Holy Roman Empire
 * undefined
 * undefined
 * ...and other states
 * ...and other states

!18 Korean War
 * French Empire and allies
 * Client states:
 * Bonapartist Spain
 * Confederation of the Rhine
 * ...and other states
 * Denmark–Norway
 * Qajar Iran
 * ...and other states
 * Worldwide
 * style="text-align: right;" |3,500,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |7,000,000
 * style="text-align: center" |
 * style="text-align: center;" |1950 – 1953
 * First Republic of Korea and allies
 * 🇺🇳 United Nations Command
 * 🇺🇸 United States
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * 🇨🇦 Canada
 * 🇹🇷 Turkey
 * ...and other countries
 * ...and other countries

!19 Deluge
 * 🇰🇵 North Korea and allies
 * People's Republic of China
 * undefined
 * Supported by:
 * undefined
 * undefined
 * undefined
 * ...and other countries
 * Korea
 * style="text-align: right;" |3,000,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |3,500,000
 * style="text-align: center" |
 * style="text-align: center" |1648 – 1666
 * Polish-Lithuania and allies
 * Crimean Khanate
 * Austria
 * Brandenburg-Prussia
 * Denmark–Norway
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!20 Second Congo War
 * 🇸🇪 Swedish Empire and allies
 * Tsardom of Russia
 * Cossack Hetmanate
 * Transylvania
 * Moldavia
 * Wallachia
 * Poland
 * style="text-align: right;" |3,000,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |3,000,000
 * style="text-align: center" |
 * style="text-align: center" |1998 – 2003
 *  DR Congo and allies
 * 🇦🇴 Angola
 * 🇹🇩 Chad
 * 🇳🇦 Namibia
 * 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
 * Pro-DR Congo rebels:
 * Anti-Ugandan rebels
 * Anti-Rwandan rebels
 * Anti-Burundi rebels
 * Anti-Burundi rebels


 * Anti-DR Congo rebels and allies
 * Rwandan-aligned rebels
 * Ugandan-aligned rebels
 * Anti-Angolan rebels
 * Foreign support:
 * 🇺🇬 Uganda
 * 🇷🇼 Rwanda
 * 🇧🇮 Burundi
 * Central Africa
 * style="text-align: right;" |2,500,000
 * style="text-align: right;" |5,400,000
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