How many soldiers died in World War 2?

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MILITARY ONLY

Soviet 14,500,000 dead

Germany 2,800,000 dead

U.S.A. 406,000 dead

Britain 400,000 dead

France 212,000 dead

Italy 330,000 dead

Japan 1,900,000 dead

China 4,000,000 dead

Australia 23,000 dead

Romania 500,000 dead

Poland 400,000 dead

Hangary 300,000 dead

Yugoslavia 300,000 dead

Finland 100,000 dead

Philippines 30,000 dead

India 36,000 dead

Canada 43,000 dead



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Quoting from WWII for Dummies -"Over 60 million people died in WWII and of those 60 million, more were civilian than soldiers." Pages 363 and 364 give a run down with some numbers but does not offer a breakdown of the total civilian vs. soldier.

The Soviet Union lost the most with 25 million deaths, but only about a third were combat related.

China's death toll is incomplete but estimates are between 15 and 22 million.

Poland had 6 million deaths including 3 million Jews, roughly 20% of its prewar population.

Germany lost 4 million soldiers and 2 million civilians, many of them women.

Japan had 1.2 million battle deaths and another 1.4 million soldiers listed as missing, almost 1 million civilians were killed in the bombing raids between 1944 and 1945.

Over 1.7 million Yugoslavs and 500,000 Greeks died in the war.

France lost 200,000 soldiers and 400,000 civilians.

Italy lost 330,000 people.

Hungary lost 147,000 men in combat.

Bulgaria lost 19,000 in combat.

Romania lost 73,000 in combat.

Great Britain lost 264,000 soldiers and 60,000 civilians in bombing raids.

The United States lost 292,000 soldiers.

The Dutch lost 10,000 soldiers and 190,000 civilians.

Australia lost 23,000 men in combat.

Canada lost 37,000 soldiers.

India lost 24,000 men in battle.

New Zeland lost 10,000.

South Africa lost 6,000.


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The true number of soldiers killed in World War 2 remains unknown. Soviet Union tried to conceal and downplay its losses in WWII in order to 'save face'. With the collapse of the USSR new archives are being declassified and these are revising the number of Soviet War dead significantly upwards. For example, it now appears that the number of Soviet citizens that died in WWII is closer to 50 million than the previously assumed total of 20-30 million. How many of these were soldiers is also uncertain. As you can no doubt see, the enormous upward revision of Soviet casualties will have a very large impact on the total number of soldiers killed in the Second World War.


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There were approximately 302,000 U.S. military personnel killed in military action in WW II. This number includes about 9,000 merchant marine. This number does not include about 130,000 non-combat military deaths during WW II.


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I will say that around 50 million! But how many countries still arent sure of the exact # but i can say that the U.S.S.R. ( Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) lost more then 20 million! But hey the russians did the most in the war GOD BLESS THE MOTHER LAND!


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It is allmost imposible to know today how many fighting men died during WW2 (somewhere betwen30 and 45 million).The total KIA\MIA for the Wehrmacht and WaffenSS where at about 5 million men more then 5/6 of witch were killed fighting the USSR that lost 99,5% of its 18 to 27 years old male population during the war.I know for sure that the romanians lost well over 200000 soldiers on the eastern front and another 100000 while alied with the russians.The number of german civilians killed is higher than 4million the allied bombings alone takeing at least 3 million inocent german lives.


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Right now it is beleived to be around 50 to 62 million. But we may never know the true total because it was so long ago and records could have been destroyed classified and stuff like that. So I personally think we will never know a specific number.


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Information I found in US History book in school... Soldiers killed Axis Powers Italy - 226,900 Germany - 3,250,000 Japan - 1,740,000

Allied Powers U.S. - 405,400 Britain - 305,800 France - 122,000 Russia - 11,000,000 China - 1,400,000

Total - 15,250,100 If I added correctly. Of course this is estimated but near correct <------------------------------whover wrote that is a total moron, Russia lost over 30 million people alone.....idoits, i just can't believe how stupid people are these days


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405,399 American soldiers were killed in action.


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About 60 million persons were killed including 30 million russian


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The more accepted number is a compromise of 55,000,000 people. That includes civilian and military losses. The exact number is impossible to know. The USSR lost the greatest number of people in the war, and when numbers rise to that level it is impossible to keep track. Especially in such a closed country with it's own genocide, you cannot grasp who died because of the war or because of the communist regime.

Figures for Soviet military losses I've seen go from four million to forty million, both are way out either way. There are more sources that I have seen that say thirteen million, six hundred thousand (13.6 million) for Soviet military losses and twenty-three million civilian losses, combat, non-combat and NKVD actions included.


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Back at the beginning someone said, "For regions it is generally given as 40-55 million in Europe and 10-20 million in Asia." Hence, that would be 50-75 total in the entire war.

I just wanted to comment that whoever put this was right--I have been looking into this a very long time, and I've seen about 20 different numbers for the total killed in the war, and all of them have fallen within this 50-75 range. In addition, it looks like all the totals posted by people on this board also fall within that range. So I just wanted to say good job to whoever put up those ranges for the two theatres.

The one correction I would make would be to say 10-20 million in "Asia/Pacific" because many of the Pacific islands on which fighting took place are not considered part of the continent of Asia.


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this is the correct death toll list

Soviet 13,600,000 military dead 14,000,000 civilians

Germany 7,200,000 military dead 6,700,000 Eastern front 500,000 non-German

U.S.A. 406,000 dead 600,000 wounded

Britain 400,000 dead

France 212,000 dead

Italy 330,000 dead

Japan 1,900,000 dead

China 4,000,000 dead

Australia 23,000 dead

Romania 500,000 dead

Poland 400,000 dead

Hangary 300,000 dead

Yugoslavia 300,000 dead

Finland 100,000 dead

Philippines 30,000 dead

India 36,000 dead

Canada 43,000 dead

total solders 30,000,000


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United States: 404,000

Russia: 6,600,000

China: 1,400,000

Japan and Germany each approx. 2-3 million


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World War Two Deaths

Total Deaths : 61 Million

Soviet Union : 25,568,000

China : 11,324,000

Germany : 7,060,000

Poland : 6,850,000

Japan : 1,806,000

Yugoslavia : 1,700,000

Rumania : 985,000

France : 810,000

Hungary : 750,000

Austria : 525,000

Greece : 520,000

Italy : 410,000

Czechoslovakia : 400,000

Great Britain : 388,000

USA : 295,000

Holland : 250,000

Belgium : 85,000

Finland : 79,000

Canada : 42,000

India : 36,000

Australia : 29,000

Spain : 22,000

Bulgaria : 21,000

New Zealand : 12,000

South Africa : 9,000

Norway : 5,000

Denmark : 4,000


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According to New Standard Encyclopedia... USSR had 12,500,000 men in the war 6,115,000 died China had 17,250,000 men in the war 1,325,000 died Poland had 1,000,000 in the war 664,000 died Great Britain had 5,896,000 in the war 357,116 died Yugoslavia had 3,741,000 in the war 305,000 died United States had 16,112,566 in the war 291,557 died France had 5,000,000 in the war 201,568 died Canada had 1,041,080 in the war 32,412 died India had 2,393,891 in the war 32,121 died Australia had 1,000,000 in the war 26,976 died Greece had 414,000 in the war 17,024 died New Zealand had 194,000 in the war 11,625 died Belgium had 650,000 in the war 8,460 died Other allied countries unknown how many in the war but 24,000 died bringing the total of allied casualties to 9,412,000 in total Germany had 20,800,000 in the war 3,530,000 died Japan had 9,700,000 in the war 1,270,000 died Italy had 3,750,000 in the war 149,500 died Hungary had 350,000 in the war 147,400 died Finland had 500,000 in the war 79,000 died Bulgaria 450,000 in the war 6,700 died Romania had 650,000 in the war and it is still unknown how many casualties Which bring's the total of axis death's to 5,183,000 and the grand total of casualties to 14,595,000

THE BEST ANSWER this answer is the simplest and is the correct answer i checked at least 50 times the answer is 61,000,000 soldiers died in world war 2.


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The question asks how many soldiers died. It does not ask for the total number of war dead in World War 2. In other words, many of the answers above are off topic ... See the link to the Wikipedia article, which give a total of a little over 25.28 million military dead (and an overall total of 72.75 million including civilians).