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: 37,500
- 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
- India: 36,000
- India: 24,300
- 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: 6,840
- Soviet Union: 11,000,000
- United Kingdom: 264,000
- United States: 400,000
- Yugoslavia: 300,000
TOTAL Allied soldiers killed: approximately 15.2 million
Axis Soldiers Killed
Bulgaria (to 1944): 9,000Finland (to 1944): 81,000Germany: up to 5,000,000 (includes Austrians and Sudeten Germans as well as other nationalities forced into or volunteering for the German armed forces)Hungary: 200,000Italy (to 1943): 60,000Japan: 1,300,000Romania (to 1944): 290,000Spain: 3,334 (all volunteers)Vichy France: 1,222 TOTAL Axis soldiers killed: approximately 7,000,000.
TOTAL soldiers killed (all): approximately 22 million.
Civilians killed
Albania: 11,000Austria: 125,000Belgium: 76,000Bulgaria: 10,000China: 32,500,000Czechoslovakia: 294,000Denmark: 2,000Ethiopia: 5,000Finland: 2,000France: 350,000Germany: 2,760,000 (including 200,000-2,000,000 World War II evacuation and expulsion)Greece: 325,000Hungary: 290,000India: 2,150,000 (median estimate; estimates for deaths from the Bengal famine of 1943 alone varies 2 million to 4 million)Italy: 153,000Japan: 672,000Netherlands: 200,000 (including 105,000 Dutch Jews)Norway: 7,000Philippines: at least 100,000Poland: 5,680,000 (including Poles of Jewish origin)Romania: 200,000Soviet Union: 16,900,000United Kingdom: 92,700United States: 6,000Yugoslavia: 1,200,000 TOTAL Civilians killed: approximately 39.2 million
TOTAL people killed in World War II: approximately 60 million
See Also
World War I casualties
Reference
Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Twentieth Century Hemoclysm
