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These numbers usually include both 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 civilians, which are the results of war - induced epidemics, diseases, famines, atrocities, genocide, etc. Contents 1 List of wars with greater than 20,000 deaths by death toll 2 List of modern wars with fewer than 20,000 deaths by death toll 3 Charts and graphs 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External links List of Wars with greater than 20,000 deaths by death toll War Death range Geometric mean Date Location Notes World War II 15,843,000 -- 85,000,000 36,696,798 1939 -- 1945 Worldwide Mongol conquests 30,000,000 -- 40,000,000 34,641,016 1206 -- 1368 Eurasia -- Excludes the ( up to ) 200,000,000 deaths from the Black Death migration that arguably may have been associated with the Mongol expansion Qing conquest of the Ming 25,000,000 + 25,000,000 1616 -- 1662 China -- Also known as the Ming -- Qing transition Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire 24,300,000 + 24,300,000 1519 -- 1632 Mexico -- Part of the European colonization of the Americas Taiping Rebellion 5,000,000 -- 100,000,000 22,360,680 1850 -- 1864 China -- Also known as the Taiping Civil War Second Sino - Japanese War 20,000,000 -- 25,000,000 22,360,680 1937 -- 1945 China -- Part of World War II An Lushan Rebellion 13,000,000 -- 36,000,000 21,633,308 755 -- 763 China / Vietnam -- Also known as the An -- Shi Rebellion Germanic Wars 15,450,000 + 15,450,000 113 -- 596 Europe Number given is lowest estimate of all deaths recorded in conflicts between Roman and Germanic peoples in this time period, due to a lack of recording of deaths actual number caused by these conflicts is likely much greater. World War I 8,545,800 - 21,000,000 13,396,335 1914 -- 1918 Worldwide -- Also known as the Great War Conquests of Timur 8,000,000 -- 20,000,000 12,649,111 1370 -- 1405 Eurasia Dungan Revolt 8,000,000 -- 12,000,000 9,797,959 1862 -- 1877 China -- Also known as the Tongzhi Hui Revolt Chinese Civil War 8,000,000 -- 7007116920000000000 ♠ 11,692,000 9,671,401 1927 -- 1949 China Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire 8,400,000 + 8,400,000 1533 -- 1572 Peru -- Part of the European colonization of the Americas Reconquista 7,000,000 + 7,000,000 711 -- 1492 Iberian Peninsula Russian Civil War 5,000,000 -- 9,000,000 6,708,204 1917 -- 1922 Russia Thirty Years ' War 3,000,000 -- 11,500,000 5,873,670 1618 -- 1648 Europe Ottoman wars in Europe 5,500,000 + 5,500,000 1821 -- 1921 Eastern Europe Justin McCarthy claims that 5.5 million Ottoman Muslims were killed by various Christian oppressors in the last century of the Ottoman Empire. Moorish Wars 5,000,000 + 5,000,000 534 -- 548 North Africa Napoleonic Wars 3,500,000 -- 7,000,000 4,949,747 1803 -- 1815 Worldwide See : Napoleonic Wars casualties Mughal -- Maratha Wars 4,600,000 + 4,600,000 1658 - 1707 India Yellow Turban Rebellion 3,000,000 -- 7,000,000 4,582,576 184 -- 205 China -- Part of Three Kingdoms War Second Congo War 2,500,000 -- 5,400,000 3,674,235 1998 -- 2003 Central Africa -- Also known as the Great War of Africa French Wars of Religion 2,000,000 -- 4,000,000 2,828,427 1562 -- 1598 France -- Also known as the Huguenot Wars Indian Rebellion of 1857 800,000 -- 10,000,000 2,828,427 1857 -- 1858 India -- Also known as the Sepoy Mutiny or the Indian First War of Independence Hundred Years ' War 2,300,000 -- 3,300,000 2,794,995 1337 -- 1453 Western Europe Vietnam War 800,000 -- 3,800,000 1,743,560 1955 -- 1975 Vietnam -- Also known as the Second Indochina War Crusades 1,000,000 -- 3,000,000 1,732,051 1095 -- 1291 Europe / Middle East ( `` Holy Land '' ) Mfecane 1,500,000 -- 2,000,000 1,732,051 1815 -- 1840 Southern Africa Nigerian Civil War 1,000,000 - 3,000,000 1,732,051 1967 -- 1970 Nigeria -- Also known as the Biafran War War in Afghanistan 1,240,000 -- 2,000,000 1,620,000 1978 -- present Afghanistan Punic Wars 1,250,000 -- 1,850,000 1,520,691 264 BC -- 146 BC Western Europe / North Africa Spanish conquest of Yucatán 1,460,000 + 1,460,000 1519 -- 1595 North America -- Part of the European colonisation of the Americas Second Sudanese Civil War 1,000,000 -- 2,000,000 1,414,214 1983 -- 2005 Sudan Warring States Period 1,200,000 -- 1,500,000 1,341,642 475 BC -- 221 BC China Korean War 1,200,000 + 1,200,000 1950 -- 1953 Korea Seven Years ' War 868,000 -- 1,400,000 1,102,361 1756 -- 1763 Worldwide Soviet - Afghan War 600,000 -- 2,000,000 1,095,445 1979 -- 1989 Afghanistan -- Part of War in Afghanistan Japanese invasions of Korea 1,000,000 + 1,000,000 1592 -- 1598 Korea Mexican Revolution 500,000 -- 2,000,000 1,000,000 1910 -- 1920 Mexico Panthay Rebellion 890,000 -- 1,000,000 943,398 1856 -- 1873 China -- Also known as the Du Wenxiu Rebellion Wars of the Three Kingdoms 876,000 + 876,000 1639 -- 1651 British Isles -- Also known as the British Civil Wars Conquests of Mehmed II ' the Conqueror ' 873,000 + 873,000 1451 -- 1481 Eastern Europe May be over or underestimated Ethiopian Civil War 500,000 -- 1,500,000 866,025 1974 -- 1991 Ethiopia Jewish -- Roman Wars 350,000 -- 2,000,000 836,660 66 -- 136 Europe / Middle East American Civil War 650,000 -- 1,000,000 800,000 1861 -- 1865 USA Second Punic War 770,000 + 770,000 218 BC -- 201 BC Western Europe / North Africa -- Part of the Punic Wars Algerian War 350,000 - 1,500,000 724,569 1954 -- 1962 Algeria -- Also known as the Algerian War of Independence War of the Spanish Succession 400,000 -- 1,251,000 707,389 1701 -- 1714 Europe / Americas Spanish Civil War 500,000 -- 1,000,000 707,107 1936 -- 1939 Spain Qin 's Wars of Unification 700,000 + 700,000 230 BC -- 221 BC China -- Part of Warring States Period Eighty Years ' War 600,000 -- 700,000 648,074 1568 -- 1648 Worldwide -- Also known as the Dutch War of Independence Gallic Wars 400,000 -- 1,000,000 632,445 58 BC -- 50 BC France First Jewish -- Roman War 270,000 -- 1,358,400 605,614 66 -- 73 Middle East -- Part of Jewish -- Roman Wars Spanish American Wars of Independence 600,000 + 600,000 1808 -- 1833 Americas Paraguayan War 300,000 -- 1,200,000 600,000 1864 -- 1870 South America -- Also known as the War of the Triple Alliance War on Terror 272,000 -- 1,260,000 585,023 2001 -- present Worldwide -- Also known as the Global War on Terrorism Iran - Iraq War 289,220 -- 1,100,000 564,041 1980 -- 1988 Middle East French invasion of Russia 540,000 + 540,000 1812 Russia -- Part of the Napoleonic Wars Cimbrian War 410,000 -- 650,000 516,236 113 BC -- 101 BC Western Europe -- Part of the Germanic Wars English Civil War 356,000 -- 735,000 511,527 1642 -- 1651 England -- Part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms Angolan Civil War 504,158 + 504,158 1975 -- 2002 Angola First Sudanese Civil War 500,000 + 500,000 1955 -- 1972 Sudan Bar Kokhba Revolt 400,000 -- 580,000 481,664 132 -- 136 Middle East -- Also known as the Third Jewish -- Roman War -- Part of Jewish -- Roman Wars Syrian Civil War 470,000 + 470,000 2011 -- present Syria See : Casualties of the Syrian civil war Albigensian Crusade 200,000 -- 1,000,000 447,214 1208 -- 1229 France -- Also known as the Cathar Crusade -- Part of the Crusades First Congo War 250,000 -- 800,000 447,214 1996 -- 1997 Congo Iraq War 176,913 -- 1,120,000 445,132 2003 -- 2011 Iraq -- Also known as the Second Gulf War -- Part of the War on Terror See : Casualties of the Iraq War Kitos War 440,000 + 440,000 115 -- 117 Southern Europe / North Africa -- Also known as the Second Jewish -- Roman War -- Part of Jewish -- Roman Wars First Indochina War 400,000 + 400,000 1946 -- 1954 Southeast Asia -- Also known as the Indochina War Maratha expeditions in Bengal 400,000 + 400,000 1741 -- 1751 India Probus 's German War 400,000 + 400,000 277 Europe Emperor Probus informed the Senate that he had killed 400,000 Germans. From the Historia Augusta. -- Part of the Germanic Wars Continuation War 387,333 + 387,333 1941 -- 1944 Northern Europe -- Part of World War II Somali Civil War 300,000 -- 500,000 387,298 1986 -- present Somalia Crimean War 356,000 -- 410,000 382,047 1853 -- 1856 Crimean Peninsula Cuban War of Independence 362,000 + 362,000 1895 -- 1898 Cuba Great Northern War 350,000 + 350,000 1700 -- 1721 Eastern Europe Sweden, the Swedish Baltic provinces, and Finland, together, with a population of only 2.5 million, lost some 350,000 dead during the war from all causes. Italian Wars 300,000 -- 400,000 346,410 1494 -- 1559 Southern Europe -- Also known as the Great Wars of Italy Gothic War ( 269 ) 320,000 + 320,000 269 Europe Claudius II defeated the Goths, of whom 320,000 were slain. This number is from the Historia Augusta. -- Part of the Germanic Wars French conquest of Algeria 300,000 + 300,000 1829 -- 1847 Algeria Including 15,000 French Burundian Civil War 300,000 + 300,000 1993 -- 2005 Burundi Bangladesh Liberation War 26,000 -- 3,000,000 279,285 1971 Bangladesh -- Also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence Second Italo - Ethiopian War 278,350 + 278,350 1935 -- 1936 Ethiopia According to Italian government statistics, the Italians suffered 1,148 KIA, 125 DOW, and 31 MIA. According to the Ethiopian government, at least 275,000 Ethiopians died in the brief war. -- Also known as the Second Italo -- Abyssinian War War in Darfur 178,258 -- 461,520 268,961 2003 -- present Sudan West Papua conflict 150,000 - 400,000 266,017 1963 -- present New Guinea Ten Years ' War 241,000 + 241,000 1868 -- 1878 Cuba -- Also known as the Great War Philippine -- American War 234,000 + 234,000 1899 -- 1912 Philippines -- Also known as the Philippine War Venezuelan War of Independence 228,000 + 228,000 1810 -- 1823 Venezuela -- Part of Spanish American Wars of Independence Ugandan Bush War 100,000 -- 500,000 223,607 1981 -- 1986 Uganda -- Also known as the Luwero War Lord 's Resistance Army insurgency 100,000 -- 500,000 223,607 1987 -- present Central Africa Colombian conflict 220,000 + 220,000 1964 -- present Colombia Franco - Dutch War 220,000 + 220,000 1672 -- 1678 Western Europe -- Also known as the Dutch War Iraqi -- Kurdish conflict 138,800 -- 320,100 210,784 1918 -- 2003 Iraq Franco - Spanish War ( 1635 -- 59 ) 200,000 + 200,000 1635 -- 1659 Western Europe Campaigns of Suleiman the Magnificent 200,000 + 200,000 1521 -- 1566 Eastern Europe / Middle East / North Africa Carlist Wars 200,000 + 200,000 1820 -- 1876 Spain La Violencia 192,700 -- 194,700 195,036 1948 -- 1958 Colombia Third Punic War 150,000 -- 250,000 193,649 149 BC -- 146 BC Tunisia -- Part of the Punic Wars Winter War 153,736 -- 194,837 185,659 1939 -- 1940 Finland -- Part of World War II First Punic War 185,000 + 185,000 264 BC -- 241 BC Southern Europe / North Africa -- Part of the Punic Wars Internal conflict in Myanmar 130,000 -- 250,000 180,278 1948 -- present Myanmar Kalinga War 150,000 -- 200,000 173,205 262 BC -- 261 BC India Hunnic Invasions 165,000 + 165,000 395 -- 453 Europe Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded by Roman writers during this time period, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. Greek Civil War 158,000 + 158,000 1946 -- 1949 Greece Wars of the Sixteen Kingdoms 150,000 + 150,000 304 -- 439 Northern China Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded in this time period in battles between armies of the Sixteen Kingdoms, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. Wars of Alexander the Great 142,000 + 142,000 336 BC -- 323 BC Middle East / North Africa / Central Asia / India Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle during these wars recorded by Greek writers, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. North Yemen Civil War 100,000 -- 200,000 141,421 1962 -- 1970 Yemen 1991 Iraqi coup d'état attempt 85,000 -- 235,000 141,333 1991 Iraq -- Also known as the Sha'aban Intifada Balkan Wars 140,000 + 140,000 1912 -- 1913 Balkan Peninsula Saint - Domingue expedition 135,000 + 135,000 1802 -- 1803 Haiti Lebanese Civil War 120,000 -- 150,000 134,164 1975 -- 1990 Lebanon Arab -- Byzantine Wars 130,000 + 130,000 629 -- 1050 Middle East / North Africa / Southern Europe Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded by writers during this time period, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. Sierra Leone Civil War 50,000 - 300,000 122,474 1991 - 2002 Sierra Leone Thousand Days ' War 120,000 + 120,000 1899 -- 1902 Colombia Moro Conflict 120,000 + 120,000 1969 -- present Philippines Great Turkish War 120,000 + 120,000 1683 -- 1699 Eastern Europe -- Also known as the War of the Holy League Arab -- Israeli conflict 116,074 + 116,074 1948 -- present Middle East Mexican Drug War 106,800 + 106,800 2006 -- present Mexico -- Also known as the Mexican War on Drugs Aceh War 97,000 -- 107,000 101,877 1873 -- 1914 Indonesia -- Also known as the Infidel War Bosnian War 97,214 -- 104,732 100,903 1991 -- 1995 Bosnia Conquests of Cyrus the Great 100,000 + 100,000 549 BC -- 530 BC Middle East Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded by writers during this time period, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. German Peasants ' War 100,000 + 100,000 1524 -- 1525 Germany -- Also known as the Great Peasants War Kurdish rebellions in Turkey 100,000 + 100,000 1921 -- present Middle East Congo Crisis 100,000 + 100,000 1960 -- 1965 Congo Insurgency in Laos 100,000 + 100,000 1975 -- 2007 Laos Kivu Conflict 100,000 + 100,000 2004 -- present Congo -- Part of the Second Congo War Kashmir Conflict 80,000 -- 110,000 93,808 1947 -- present North India / Pakistan Algerian Civil War 44,000 -- 200,000 93,808 1991 -- 2002 Algeria Angolan War of Independence 82,991 -- 102,991 92,452 1961 -- 1974 Angola Roman Conquest of Britain 90,000 + 90,000 43 -- 96 Great Britain Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded by Roman writers during this time period, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. Mahdist War 90,969 + 90,969 1881 -- 1889 Northwest Africa -- Also known as the Sudan Campaign Goryeo -- Khitan Wars 90,000 + 90,000 993 -- 1019 Korea Rif War 90,000 + 90,000 1916 -- 1927 Morocco Sri Lankan Civil War 80,000 -- 100,000 89,443 1983 -- 2009 Sri Lanka Anglo - Spanish War ( 1585 -- 1604 ) 88,285 + 88,285 1585 -- 1604 Europe / Americas Indian annexation of Hyderabad 29,212 -- 242,212 84,116 1948 India -- Also known as Operation Polo Iceni Revolt 80,000 + 80,000 60 -- 61 England Year is uncertain -- Part of Roman Conquest of Britain Wars of Scottish Independence 60,000 - 150,000 77,459 1296 -- 1357 Scotland / England Iraqi Civil War ( 2014 -- present ) 75,000 + 75,000 2014 -- present Iraq Mozambican War of Independence 63,500 -- 88,500 74,965 1964 -- 1974 Mozambique Greco -- Persian Wars 73,800 + 73,800 499 BC -- 449 BC Greece Sino - Burmese War ( 1765 -- 69 ) 70,000 + 70,000 1765 -- 1769 Southeast Asia -- Also known as the Qing invasions of Burma Internal conflict in Peru 70,000 + 70,000 1980 -- present Peru French campaign in Egypt and Syria 65,000 + 65,000 1798 -- 1801 Middle East / North Africa War in North - West Pakistan 45,852 -- 78,946 60,158 2004 -- present Pakistan -- Also known as the War in Waziristan -- Part of the War on Terror and War in Afghanistan ( 2001 -- present ) Ituri conflict 60,000 + 60,000 1999 -- 2003 Congo -- Part of the Second Congo War Soviet -- Japanese War ( 1945 ) 33,420 -- 95,768 56,574 1945 Manchuria -- Part of World War II War in Afghanistan ( 2001 -- present ) 47,246 -- 61,603 53,949 2001 -- present Afghanistan -- Part of the War on Terror and War in Afghanistan Boko Haram insurgency 51,567 + 51,567 2009 -- present Nigeria 2,400,000 internally displaced French intervention in Mexico 49,287 + 49,287 1862 -- 1867 Mexico First Sino -- Japanese War 48,311 + 48,311 1894 -- 1895 East Asia Kurdish -- Turkish conflict 45,000 + 45,000 1978 -- present Middle East -- Part of the Kurdish rebellions in Turkey Wars of the Roses 35,000 -- 50,000 41,833 1455 -- 1487 England / Wales American Revolutionary War 10,435 -- 159,000 40,733 1775 -- 1783 Worldwide -- Also known as the American War of Independence Gothic War ( 376 -- 382 ) 40,000 + 40,000 376 -- 382 Eastern Europe -- Part of the Germanic Wars Second Italo - Senussi War 40,000 + 40,000 1923 -- 1932 Libya Nagorno - Karabakh War 38,000 + 38,000 1988 -- 1994 Caucasus region -- Also known as the Artsakh Liberation War CPP - NPA - NDF rebellion 30,000 -- 43,000 35,917 1969 -- present Philippines Ethnic conflict in Nagaland 34,000 + 34,000 1954 -- present Northeast India Samnite Wars 33,500 + 33,500 343 BC -- 290 BC Italy Number given is the sum of all deaths in battle recorded by Roman writers during this time period, does not take into account civilian deaths, the actual number may be much greater. Conquest of the Desert 30,000 -- 35,000 32,404 1870s -- 1884 Patagonia Gulf War 25,456 -- 40,456 32,100 1990 -- 1991 Iraq -- Also known as the First Iraq War Greco - Italian War 27,080 + 27,080 1940 -- 1941 Southeast Europe -- Part of World War II Insurgency in Northeast India 25,000 + 25,000 1964 -- present Northeast India Houthi insurgency in Yemen 25,000 + 25,000 2004 -- present Yemen -- Also known as the Sa'dah War Irish Rebellion of 1798 11,500 -- 53,000 24,688 1798 Ireland Dominican Restoration War 22,000 + 22,000 1863 -- 1865 Dominican Republic One estimate placed total Spanish deaths from all causes at 18,000. The fatal losses among the Dominican insurgents were estimated at 4,000. Kurdish separatism in Iran 13,100 -- 34,000 21,105 1918 -- present Iran Six - Day War 21,000 + 21,000 1967 Middle East War of the Quadruple Alliance 20,000 + 20,000 1718 -- 1720 Europe / North America Ragamuffin War 20,000 + 20,000 1835 -- 1845 Brazil Italo - Turkish War 20,000 + 20,000 1911 -- 1912 Southern Europe / North Africa List of modern wars with fewer than 20,000 deaths by death toll Note that the below list is incomplete. 19,619 + -- Rhodesian Bush War ( 1964 - 1979 ) 19,000 + -- Mexican -- American War ( 1846 -- 1848 ) 18,069 -- 20,069 -- First Opium War ( 1839 -- 1842 ) 17,294 + -- 1940 -- 44 insurgency in Chechnya ( 1940 - 1944 ) 17,200 + -- First Anglo - Afghan War ( 1839 -- 1842 ) 16,765 -- 17,065 -- Balochistan conflict ( 1948 -- present ) 16,752 -- 21,426 -- Croatian War of Independence ( 1991 -- 1995 ) 16,000 + -- War of the Pacific ( 1879 -- 1883 ) 16,000 + -- Nepalese Civil War ( 1996 -- 2006 ) 16,000 + -- Spanish -- American War ( 1898 ) 15,200 -- 15,300 -- Peasants ' War ( 1798 ) ( 1798 ) 15,000 + -- Nigerian Sharia conflict ( 1953 -- present ) 14,460 -- 14,922 South African Border War ( 1966 - 1990 ) 14,077 -- 22,077 Mau Mau Uprising ( 1952 - 1960 ) 13,929 + -- Republic of the Congo Civil War ( 1997 - 99 ) ( 1997 -- 1999 ) 13,812 + -- Naxalite - Maoist insurgency ( 1967 -- present ) 11,500 -- 53,000 -- Irish Rebellion of 1798 ( 1798 ) 11,500 -- 12,843 -- Indo - Pakistani War of 1971 ( 1971 ) -- Part of the Bangladesh Liberation War 10,000 + -- Malayan Emergency ( 1948 -- 1960 ) 10,000 + -- War in Donbass ( 2014 -- present ) 10,000 + - Rwandan Civil War ( 1990 - 1993 ) 10,000 + -- First Italo - Ethiopian War ( 1895 -- 1896 ) 10,000 + -- Second Melillan campaign ( 1909 -- 1910 ) 10,000 + -- Hispano - Moroccan War ( 1859 -- 60 ) ( 1859 -- 1860 ) 10,000 + -- Spanish conquest of Tripoli ( 1510 ) 9,400 + -- Libyan Civil War ( 2011 ) ( 2011 ) 8,136 + -- Iraqi insurgency ( post-U.S. withdrawal ) ( 2011 -- 2014 ) 8,000 + -- 1948 Palestine war ( 1948 -- 1949 ) -- Part of the Arab -- Israeli conflict 7,500 -- 21,741 -- War of 1812 ( 1812 -- 1815 ) 7,400 -- 16,200 -- Yemeni Civil War ( 2015 -- present ) ( 2015 -- present ) 7,104 + -- Indo - Pakistani War of 1947 ( 1947 -- 1949 ) 7,000 + -- Chadian Civil War ( 2005 -- 10 ) ( 2005 -- 2010 ) 6,800 -- 13,459 -- Indo - Pakistani War of 1965 ( 1965 ) 6,543 + -- South Thailand insurgency ( 2004 -- present ) 6,295 + -- Central African Republic conflict ( 2012 -- present ) 5,641 + -- Sudanese nomadic conflicts ( 2009 -- present ) 5,100 + -- Gaza -- Israel conflict ( 2006 -- present ) -- Part of the Arab -- Israeli conflict 5,000 + -- Casamance conflict ( 1982 -- 2014 ) 5,000 + -- Chilean Civil War of 1891 ( 1891 ) 4,715 + -- Libyan Civil War ( 2014 -- present ) ( 2014 -- present ) 4,000 -- 10,000 -- Conflict in the Niger Delta ( 2004 -- present ) 3,699 + -- Al - Qaeda insurgency in Yemen ( 1992 -- present ) 3,529 + -- The Northern Ireland Troubles ( 1966 -- 1998 ) 3,366 + -- Insurgency in the North Caucasus ( 2009 -- 2017 ) 3,222 -- 3,722 -- Hungarian Revolution of 1956 ( 1956 ) 3,144 + -- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency ( 1996 -- present ) 3,114 + -- 1947 -- 48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine ( 1947 -- 1948 ) -- Part of the 1948 Palestine war 3,007 + -- War of the Golden Stool ( 1900 ) 3,000 -- 6,000 -- Negro Rebellion ( 1912 ) 3,000 + -- Second Ivorian Civil War ( 2010 -- 2011 ) 3,000 + -- Banana Wars ( 1914 -- 1933 ) 2,944 + -- Insurgency in the Maghreb ( 2004 -- present ) 2,800 + -- Northern Mali conflict ( 2012 -- present ) 2,781 + -- Iranian Revolution ( 1978 -- 1979 ) 2,751 + -- Third Anglo - Afghan War ( 1919 ) 2,557 + -- Sudan internal conflict ( 2011 -- present ) ( 2011 -- present ) 2,394 + -- Sinai insurgency ( 2011 -- present ) 2,300 + -- Conflict in the Niger Delta ( 2003 -- present ) 2,221 -- 2,406 -- 2014 Israel -- Gaza conflict ( 2014 ) -- Part of the Gaza -- Israel conflict 2,150 + -- Persian Expedition of 1796 ( 1796 ) 2,096 + -- Aden Emergency ( 1963 - 1967 ) 2,054 + -- South Yemen insurgency ( 2009 -- 2015 ) 2,000 + -- Mexican War of Independence ( 1810 -- 1821 ) 2,000 + -- Costa Rican Civil War ( 1948 ) 2,000 + -- Six - Day War ( 2000 ) ( 2000 ) 2,000 + -- 2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes ( 2010 ) 1,810 + -- Anglo - Iraqi War ( 1941 ) -- Part of World War II 1,774 + -- Lapland War ( 1944 - 1945 ) -- Part of World War II 1,643 -- 2,237 -- War of Transnistria ( 1992 ) 1,449 + -- M23 rebellion ( 2012 - 2013 ) -- Part of the Kivu Conflict 1,300 + -- Allied Democratic Forces insurgency ( 1996 -- present ) 1,295 + -- Siachen conflict ( 1984 -- present ) 1,229 + -- Basque conflict ( 1959 -- 2011 ) 1,227 -- 5,600 -- Kargil War ( 1999 ) 1,119 + -- Post-coup unrest in Egypt ( 2013 -- 2014 ) ( 2013 -- 2014 ) 1,043 + -- Burundian unrest ( 2015 -- present ) 1,000 -- 1,500 -- Cabinda conflict ( 1994 -- present ) 1,000 + -- Djiboutian Civil War ( 1991 -- 1994 ) 1,000 + -- 1991 -- 92 South Ossetia War ( 1991 -- 1992 ) 1,000 + -- Xinjiang conflict ( 1960 -- present ) 1,000 + -- Chincha Islands War ( 1864 -- 1866 ) 907 -- Falklands War ( 1982 ) 898 -- Barbary Wars ( 1801 -- 1815 ) 846 -- 2011 Egyptian revolution ( 2011 ) 820 -- Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon ( 2011 -- 2017 ) -- Part of the Syrian Civil War 808 -- Sino - Russian border conflicts ( 1652 - 1689 ) 803 - 1303 - Conflict in Najran, Jizan and Asir ( 2015 - present ) -- Part of the Yemeni Civil War ( 2015 - present ) 789 -- 1,874 -- 2001 -- 02 India -- Pakistan standoff ( 2001 -- 2002 ) 771 -- Insurgency in Egypt ( 2013 -- present ) ( 2013 -- present ) 740 -- Indonesia -- Malaysia confrontation ( 1963 -- 1966 ) 722 -- Kamwina Nsapu rebellion ( 2016 -- present ) 700 -- 800 -- Anglo - Aro War ( 1901 - 1902 ) 659 -- 2,496 -- Russia -- Georgia war ( 2008 ) 643 -- 1,500 -- Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile ( 2011 -- present ) 547 -- Cyprus crisis ( 1955 -- 64 ) ( 1955 -- 1964 ) 542 -- East Prigorodny Conflict ( 1992 ) 422 -- Franco - Thai War ( 1940 -- 1941 ) 339 -- Turkey -- ISIL conflict ( 2015 -- present ) 327 -- RENAMO insurgency ( 2013 -- present ) 275 -- 569 -- Second Afar insurgency ( 1995 -- present ) Part of the Eritrean -- Ethiopian border conflict 236 -- Batwa - Luba clashes ( 2013 -- present ) 206 -- 345 -- Arab separatism in Khuzestan ( 1922 -- present ) 200 -- 1935 Yazidi revolt ( 1935 ) 174 -- 194 -- United States occupation of Veracruz ( 1914 ) 159 -- ISIL insurgency in Tunisia ( 2015 -- present ) 158 -- Dissident Irish Republican campaign ( 1998 -- present ) 126 -- 2016 Kasese clashes ( 2016 ) 115 -- The Pool War ( 2016 -- present ) 102 - 227 -- India -- Pakistan military confrontation ( 2016 -- present ) ( 2016 -- present ) 95 -- 2013 Guinea clashes ( 2013 ) 84 -- 134 -- Lahad Datu standoff ( 2013 ) 82 -- Quasi-War ( 1798 - 1800 ) 82 -- North - West Rebellion ( 1885 ) 71 -- Paraguayan People 's Army insurgency ( 2005 -- present ) 63 -- Ten - Day War ( 1991 ) 46 -- Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli ( 1954 ) 39 - 111 -- India -- Pakistan border skirmishes ( 2014 -- 2015 ) ( 2014 - 2015 ) 37 -- 2013 India -- Pakistan border skirmishes ( 2013 ) 36 -- DHKP / C insurgency in Turkey ( 1990 -- present ) 36 -- 2016 Niger Delta conflict ( 2016 -- Present ) -- Part of the Conflict in the Niger Delta 12 -- 61 -- 2017 Afghanistan -- Pakistan border skirmish ( 2017 ) -- Part of the Afghanistan -- Pakistan skirmishes 11 -- 30 -- 2008 Kufra conflict ( 2008 ) 8 -- 2011 India -- Pakistan border skirmish ( 2011 ) Charts and graphs Death toll graph - List of wars by death toll through time 1300 CE to present, over 1 million casualties, from the data presented in the above table. 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Question: total number of deaths in the civil war
Answer: 650,000–1,000,000