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  2. Civilian deaths totaled 5055 million. Military deaths from all causes totaled 21–25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war. More than half of the total number of casualties are accounted for by the dead of the Republic of China and of the Soviet Union.

  3. Aug 9, 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 fatalities of...

  4. That caveat aside, the most up-to-date estimates calculate that between 70 million and 85 people died in World War II. That estimate equates to roughly 3-3.7% of Earth's population at the time. Surprisingly, more than twice as many civilians died in World War II than did members of the military.

  5. 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.

  6. Worldwide Casualties* *Worldwide casualty estimates vary widely in several sources. The number of civilian deaths in China alone might well be more than 50,000,000. See estimates for worldwide deaths, broken down by country, in World War II.

    Country
    Military Deaths
    Total Civilian And Military Deaths
    Albania
    30,000
    30,200
    Australia
    39,800
    40,500
    Austria
    261,000
    384,700
    Belgium
    12,100
    86,100
  7. These are the best estimates for how many lives were lost during World War II.

  8. Over 150,000 Italian civilians died, as did 35,828 anti-Nazi and anti-fascist partisans and some 35,000 troops of the Italian Social Republic. [32][33][m] On the Western Front of World War II, Italy was the most costly campaign in terms of casualties suffered by infantry forces of both sides, during bitter small-scale fighting around strongpoint...

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