Research Starters: Worldwide Deaths in World War 2

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Deaths by Country

Country Military Deaths Total Civilian and Military machine Deaths
Albania 30,000 30,200
Commonwealth of australia 39,800 40,500
Austria 261,000 384,700
Kingdom of belgium 12,100 86,100
Brazil 1,000 ii,000
Bulgaria 22,000 25,000
Canada 45,400 45,400
Prc 3-4,000,000 20,000,000
Czechoslovakia 25,000 345,000
Denmark two,100 3,200
Dutch East Indies -- 3-iv,000,000
Estonia -- 51,000
Ethiopia five,000 100,000
Finland 95,000 97,000
French republic 217,600 567,600
French Indochina -- one-1,500,000
Frg v,533,000 6,600,000-eight,800,000
Greece xx,000-35,000 300,000-800,000
Republic of hungary 300,000 580,000
India 87,000 1,500,000-2,500,000
Italy 301,400 457,000
Nippon 2,120,000 2,600,000-three,100,000
Korea -- 378,000-473,000
Republic of latvia -- 227,000
Lithuania -- 353,000
Luxembourg -- 2,000
Malaya -- 100,000
Netherlands 17,000 301,000
New Zealand 11,900 11,900
Norway three,000 nine,500
Papua New Guinea -- xv,000
Philippines 57,000 500,000-1,000,000
Poland 240,000 v,600,000
Romania 300,000 833,000
Singapore -- 50,000
South Africa 11,900 11,900
Soviet Union eight,800,000-10,700,000 24,000,000
United Kingdom 383,600 450,700
U.s.a. 416,800 418,500
Yugoslavia 446,000 one,000,000

Worldwide Casualties*

Boxing 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 than 50,000,000.