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World War II was humanity's deadliest war, causing tens of millions of deaths. The tables below provide a detailed country-by-country count of human losses.

Total human losses

The total estimated human loss of life caused by World War II was roughly 72 million people. The civilian toll was around 47 million, including 20 million deaths due to war related famine and disease. The military toll was about 25 million, including the deaths of about 4 million prisoners of war in captivity. The Allies lost approximately 61 million people, and the Axis powers lost 11 million.

Recent historical scholarship

World War II casualty statistics vary to a great extent. Estimates of the death toll range from 50 million to over 70 million. Recent historical scholarship has shed new light on the casualties of World War II. Research in Russia since the fall of communism has revised the estimate of Soviet war dead. Losses of the USSR, within postwar borders, are now estimated at 26.6 million. Historians in post-communist Poland now estimate the losses of Polish citizens at between 4.9 and 5.1 million in German hands. The German Army historian Dr. Rüdiger Overmans published a study in 2000 that estimated German military dead and missing at 5.3 million. The war dead totals on this page for the British Commonwealth are based on the research by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to identify and commemorate Commonwealth war dead.. The casualties listed here include about 12 million war related famine deaths in China, Indonesia, French Indochina and India that are often omitted from other compilations of World War II casualties.

Casualties by country

The casualties of World War II were suffered disproportionately by the various participants. This is especially true regarding civilian casualties. The following chart gives data on the casualties suffered by each country, along with population information to show the relative impact of losses. Military casualties include battle deaths and personnel missing in action, as well as fatalities due to accidents, disease and deaths of prisoners of war in captivity. Civilian casualties include deaths caused by strategic bombing, Nazi persecution, Japanese war crimes, population transfers in the Soviet Union and deaths due to war related famine and disease. Jewish losses in the Holocaust are listed separately for each nation, since they're known. Compiling or estimating the numbers of deaths caused during wars and other violent conflicts is a controversial subject. Historians often put forward many different estimates of the numbers killed during World War II. The distinction between military and civilian casualties caused directly by warfare and collateral damage isn't always clear cut. For nations that suffered huge losses such as the U.S.S.R, China, Poland and Yugoslavia, our sources can give us only the total estimated population loss caused by the war and a rough estimate of the breakdown between deaths caused by military activity, persecution and war related famine. The footnotes give a detailed breakdown of the casualties and their .

Human Losses of World War Two by Country

Country	Population 1939	Military deaths	Civilian deaths	Jewish Holocaust deaths	Total deaths	Deaths as % of 1939 population
	1,073,000	28,000		200	28,200	2.63%
	6,998,000	39,400	700		40,100	0.57%
	6,653,000		40,500	65,000	105,500	1.59%
	8,387,000	12,100	49,600	24,400	86,100	1.02%
	40,289,000	1,000	1,000		2,000	0.00%
	6,458,000	22,000	3,000		25,000	0.38%
	16,119,000	22,000	250,000		272,000	1.16%
	11,267,000	45,300			45,300	0.40%
	517,568,000	3,800,000	16,200,000		20,000,000	3.86%
	4,235,000		100		100	0.00%
	15,300,000	25,000	43,000	277,000	345,000	2.25%
	3,795,000	2,100	1,000	100	3,200	0.08%
	1,134,000		40,000	1,000	41,000	3.62%
	17,700,000	5,000	95,000		100,000	0.6%
	3,700,000	95,000	2,000		97,000	2.62%
	41,700,000	217,600	267,000	83,000	567,600	1.35%
	24,600,000		1,000,000		1,000,000	4.07%
	69,623,000	5,533,000	1,600,000	160,000	7,293,000	10.47%
	7,222,000	20,000	220,000	71,300	311,300	4.31%
	9,129,000	300,000	80,000	200,000	580,000	6.35%
	119,000		200		200	0.17%
	378,000,000	87,000	1,500,000		1,587,000	0.42%
	69,435,000		4,000,000		4,000,000	5.76%
	14,340,000	200			200	0.00%
	3,698,000	1,000			1,000	0.03%
	2,960,000		200		200	0.00%
	44,394,000	301,400	145,100	8,000	454,500	1.02%
	71,380,000	2,120,000	580,000		2,700,000	3.78%
	23,400,000		378,000		378,000	1.6%
	1,995,000		147,000	80,000	227,000	11.38%
	2,575,000		212,000	141,000	353,000	13.71%
	295,000		1,300	700	2,000	0.68%
	4,391,000		100,000		100,000	2.28%
	269,000		1,500		1,500	0.56%
	19,320,000		100		100	0.00%
	819,000	300			300	0.04%
	8,729,000	15,800	124,500	106,000	246,300	2.82%
	300,000	1,000	100		1,100	0.37%
	1,629,000	11,900			11,900	0.67%
	2,945,000	3,000	5,800	700	9,500	0.32%
	16,000,000	57,000	90,000		147,000	0.92%
Micronesia	1,900,000		57,000		57,000	3.00%
	34,849,000	160,000	2,440,000	3,000,000	5,600,000	16.07%
	500,000		55,000		55,000	11.00%
	19,934,000	300,000	64,000	469,000	833,000	4.22%
	728,000		50,000		50,000	6.87%
	10,160,000	11,900			11,900	0.12%
	168,500,000	10,700,000	11,400,000	1,000,000	23,100,000	13.71%
	25,637,000	4,500			4,500	0.02%
	6,341,000	200	2,000		2,200	0.03%
	4,210,000		100		100	0.00%
	15,023,000	5,600	300		5,900	0.04%
	47,760,000	382,600	67,800		450,400	0.94%
	131,028,000	416,800	1,700		418,500	0.32%
	15,400,000	446,000	514,000	67,000	1,027,000	6.67%
Totals	1,961,913,000	25,193,700	41,830,600	5,754,400	72,778,700	3.71%

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