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The authors of the Oxford Companion to World War II maintain that "casualty statistics are notoriously unreliable". The table below gives data on the number of dead and military wounded for each country, along with population information to show the relative impact of losses.
Worldwide Casualties*. Battle Deaths. 15,000,000. Battle Wounded. 25,000,000. Civilian Deaths. 45,000,000. *Worldwide casualty estimates vary widely in several sources. The number of civilian deaths in China alone might well be more than 50,000,000.
CountryMilitary DeathsTotal Civilian And Military DeathsAlbania30,00030,200Australia39,80040,500Austria261,000384,700Belgium12,10086,100May 15, 2024 · World War II, the deadliest and most destructive war in human history, claimed between 40 and 50 million lives, displaced tens of millions of people, and cost more than $1 trillion to prosecute. The financial cost to the United States alone was more than $341 billion (approximately $5.8 trillion in 2023 dollars when adjusted for inflation ).
World War II Casualty Lists . The Departments of War and the Navy created lists of casualties during World War II. The National Archives scanned those lists and they are available on NARA’s website in the online catalog at www.archives.gov/research/search/. War Casualties for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard Personnel
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Feb 2, 2024 · Feb 2, 2024. Estimates for the total death count of the Second World War generally range somewhere between 70 and 85 million people. The Soviet Union suffered the highest number of...
The statistics on World War II casualties are inexact. Only for the United States and the British Commonwealth can official figures showing killed, wounded, prisoners or missing for the armed forces be cited with any degree of assurance. For most other nations, only estimates of varying reliability exist.
Battle casualties of World War II. The article summarizes casualties in different theatres of World War II in Europe and North Africa. Only the military losses and civilian losses directly associated with hostilities are included into the article.
