Genocides of the 20th Century
Very Rough Estimates of Civilian Casualties in Times of Peace, Times of War, Ethnic Cleansing, and Political Purges.
Does not include uniformed military.
Includes data from a variety of academic sources plus Amnesty International
Years of
Genocides
Deaths
Low est.
Deaths
High est.
Peoples Perpetrators
1949-80 35,000,000 75,000,000 China Chairman Mao
1932-3 35,000,000 61,000,000 USSR Joseph Stalin
WW-II 1,000,000 12,000,000 Jews, Gypseys, Poles, Gays, "Cripples" Adolph Hitler and the Nazi High Command
WW-II 3,050,000 46,000,000 Total Civilians Emperor Hiro Hito and Imperial Japan
1938 1,500,000 30,000,000 China Emperor Hiro Hito and Imperial Japan
WW-II 672,000 672,000 Japan USA - Firebombing + Nukes
       Numbers Above Are Summaries.
       Numbers Below Are Mixed Into Summaries above.
 
Totals 111,139,100 244,561,240
1932-3 35,000,000 61,000,000 USSR Stalin
1958 27,000,000 75,000,000 China Mao-Great Leap Forward, & Cultural Revolution
1932 7,000,000 12,000,000 Ukrane Ottoman Embire
WW-II 2,000,000 6,500,000 Jews, Gypseys, Poles, Gays, "Cripples" Adolph Hitler and the Nazi High Command
1938-88 2,000,000 2,000,000 Congo Ugandan, Rwandan armies, rebels,
DR Congo & allied armies
1956 - 1972, 2,000,000 2,000,000 Sudan Khartoum gov't NIF government,
militias, rebels
1894-1923 1,800,000 1,800,000 Armenian Christians Ottoman Empire
1914-22 1,750,000 1,750,000 Greek Christians Ottoman Empire
1948-94 1,700,000 1,700,000 N Korea Kim Il Sung
1959 - 1990's 1,600,000 1,600,000 Tibet PRC communist
1929-45 1,585,000 1,585,000 Poland Ethnic Cleansing
1945-80 1,503,000 1,503,000 Pakistan Govt
1915 1,500,000 1,500,000 Armenia Turkey
1975-8 1,500,000 1,500,000 Ethiopia Menghitsu
1978 1,500,000 3,000,000 Cambodia Pol Pot / Khmir Rouge
1938 1,500,000 30,000,000 China Japan "The Rape of Nanking"
1945-present 1,417,000 1,417,000 Mexican Peasants Government
1945-80 1,000,000 1,670,000 Vietnamese Ho Chi Min & N. Vietnam
1975 - 1994 1,000,000 1,000,000 Mozambique Renamo, MPLA
1954 - 1975 1,000,000 1,000,000 North Vietnam North Vietnam
1966 - 1970, 1,000,000 1,000,000 Nigeria Nigerian army
1946 1,000,000 1,000,000 India/Pakistan Hindu/Moslem
1941-5 1,000,000 1,000,000 Croatia Govt
1967-70 1,000,000 1,000,000 Biafra Yakubu Gowon
1954-62 1,000,000 1,000,000 Algeria France - DeGaulle
1979-82 900,000 900,000 Afghansitan Leonid Brezhnev (USSR)
1966-76 900,000 1,100,000 China Mao - Cultural Revolution
1994 800,000 800,000 Rwanda Jean Kambanda
650,000 1,072,000 Yugoslavia Croatian Fascists
1976-98 600,000 600,000 East Timor Suharto
WW-II 600,000 16,100,000 War Slaves who built the
Burma-Thailand Railroad
Japan
1965-2003 400,000 2,000,000 Suni, Kurd, Iran Saddam Hussein, Iraq
1971 500,000 500,000 Bangladesh Yahya Kahk (Pakistan)
1965 500,000 500,000 Indonesia Suharto gov't
1961 -- 1962 500,000 500,000 Angola Colonial army
1975-2002 400,000 400,000 Angola Savimbi
1986-2001 400,000 400,000 Afghansitan Mullah Omar
1896 300,000 300,000 Armenia Turkey
1936-45 300,000 300,000 Etheopia Mussolini
1920-45 300,000 300,000 Nanking Japan
1969-79 300,000 300,000 Uganda Idi Amin
1945 -- 1964 300,000 300,000 Brazil Gov't police, settler militias
WW-II 225,000 600,000 Dresden USA, Brittan
1899-1902 200,000 200,000 Philippines USA
WW-II 200,000 500,000 Gypsies Nazis
1991-2000 200,000 200,000 Sierra Leone Foday Sankoh
1915-1917 100,000 100,000 Syrian Christians Ottoman Embire
1989-99 100,000 100,000 Sudan Hassan Turabi
1992-6 180,000 180,000 Yugoslavia Milos Milosevic
WW-II 159,000 318,000 Philippines Japan
WW-II 150,000 150,000 Singapore Japan
WW-II 97,000 124,711 Tokyo Firebombing USA
WW-II 66,000 100,000 Hiroshima USA
WW-II 68,000 312,000 Indochinese Japan
1904 65,000 65,000 Nambia Govt
1957-71 60,000 60,000 Hati Pappa Doc Duvalier
WW-II 50,000 50,000 Hamburg USA, Brittan
WW-II 40,000 40,000 London (The Blitz) Nazi Germany
WW-II 40,000 40,000 Warsaw (Invasion) Nazi Germany
1982-1990 40,000 40,000 chad Hissene Habre
WW-II 39,000 100,000 Nagasaki USA
WW-II 37,000 38,000 Malysia Govt
WW-II 30,000 40,000 Rotterdam (Invasion) Nazi Germany
1917-20 30,000 30,000 USSR Lenin
1980 25,000 25,000 Syrian Christians Hafez Al Assad
1995 20,000 20,000 Bosnia Milosevic
1992-5 20,000 200,000 Bosnia Govt
1980- 20,000 20,000 Iran Iran-Khomeini
WW-II 10,000 10,000 Gays Nazis
WW-II 13,100 1,529 Indonesia Japan