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.
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Totals | 111,139,100 | 244,561,240
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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
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