Human Cost of World War 2

Number of Polish soldiers mobilized

1 million

Chinese military casualties

1.5 million

Italian military casualties

1.7 million

Japanese military casualties

1.7 million

Fraction of the Polish population lost

1/5

Number of German soldiers mobilized

11 million

Number of Soviet soldiers mobilized

12.5 million

Polish military casualties

120 thousand

Number of American soldiers moblized

14.9 million

Number of Germans expelled from central and Eastern Europe in 1945-1947

16 million

Fraction of deaths in World War 2 that were civilian deaths

2/3

Number of people displaced following World War 2

20 million

Soviet civilian casualties

21.5 million

French military casualties

250 thousand

German military casualties

3.24 million

German civilian casualties

3.81 million

Number of people forced to relocate by Stalin and Hitler

30 million

French civilian casualties

360 thousand

Japanese civilian casualties

360 thousand

Number of Italian soldiers mobilized

4.5 million

Number of Japanese soldiers mobilized

4.5 million

Estimated European death toll of World War 2

40 million

Number of American military casualties

407 thousand

Military casualties in the British Empire

452 thousand

Polish civilian casualties

5.3 million

Italian civilian casualties

500 thousand

Number of French soldiers mobilized

6 million

Estimated death toll of World War 2

60 million

Chinese civilian casualties

7.8 million

Number of Chinese soldiers mobilized

8 million

Number of soldiers mobilized in the British Empire

8.72 million

Civilian casualties in the British Empire

80 thousand

Soviet military casualties

9.5 million

Countries which suffered more military casualties then civilian casualties

Germany and the UK

Number of American civilian casualties

NA