List of wars by death toll
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by the war. These numbers usually include 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 soldiers which are the results of war-induced epidemics, famines, atrocities, genocide, etc.
Modern wars with greater than 25,000 deaths by death toll
Generally considered after 1500 CE.
| War | Death range |
Date | Combatants | Location | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great War | 65,000,000-90,000,000 | 1904-1917 | Imperial Powers vs Pacific Coalition | Worldwide | - Largest and deadliest war in history |
| Nagatoian Revolutionary War | 120,000 | 1941-1950 | West Nagato vs East Nagato | Gondwana | - Largest revolutionary war on Gondwana in the 20th century |
| Auroran Imperial War | 20,000,000-25,000,000 | 1970-1975 | Bursil Accords vs Rivendale Pact | Aurora | - Aurora's deadliest war |
| Great War of Fódlan | 1,570,000 | 1980-1986 | Fódlan Resistance Army, Faerghus Militia, & Leicester Militia vs Adrestian Empire | Gondwana | - Largest war on Gondwana in the 20th century |
| Meremaa Civil War | 955,000 | 1990-1994 | Monarchist Faction vs Republican Faction | Gondwana | - Bloodiest civil war on Gondwana in the 20th century |
| Auroran-Pacific War | 388,343 | 2017 | Bursil Accords vs Rivendale Pact | Aurora and the Pacific Ocean | - Largest war on Aurora in the 21st century |
| Third Durakan-Dwarvern War | 114,998 | 1930-1933 | Durakia vs Dwarvern Tribes | Durakia, Irnac | - Saw the end of Martovist expansion in Irnac |
Modern wars with fewer than 25,000 deaths by death toll
- 8,419 – Annexation of Kireitarenu'a - Part of 2019 Kyrlot Arachnist Expansion (2019)
- 7,832 - First Durakan-Dwarvern War (1924-1926)
- 4,815 - Second Durakan-Dwarvern War (1928-1929)
- 2,606 – Annexation of Izria – Part of 2019 Kyrlot Arachnist Expansion (2019)