A Starting Point: Top Known War Dead: How many did we kill? 204,740,618 (estimated) v 1,810,937,500 world-wide abortions.
| The figures listed in the Top Known War Dead and Top Despots are only presented to draw a contrast. We are well aware of the variability of these types of statistics, particularly in conflicts with little or no record keeping (which is most) and definition of a war or genocide victims. The reality is that no matter what statistical bracket you put on the those figures you cannot escape the fact the full force of multiple powerful individuals and countries killed less people than the slow, quiet, destruction of human life in the womb. If the unborn could speak they would condemn us all for our silence. |
All the know war death counts between 1860 and 2012 total approximately 204,740,618 deaths. We weep over these deaths. It took 152 years and trillions of dollars of effort to kill all these people. Yet we've killed nearly 9 times that globally in less than 50 years and hardly a voice is heard.
We weep for mistreated animals and sigh when we see a dead cat on the road. We decry murder and injustice. We comfort couples who have had miscarriage. But we ignore the cries of our fellow humans who are chopped up like fruit in a blender, burned out of the womb by acid, and have their brains sucked out even moments before birth. What have we become? This is perhaps the most critical issue facing our country. Our housing market will not recover. Our economy will not grow. We are close to the tipping point. Unless we turn this trend of death to life our country is headed to a slow, painful, descent.
| Total Deaths from Known Modern Wars | 204,740,618 |
| WAR | TOTAL |
| 1860-65: USA civil war | 628,000 |
| 1886-1908: Belgium-Congo Free State | 8,000,000 |
| 1898: USA-Spain & Philippines | 220,000 |
| 1899-02: British-Boer war | 100,000 |
| 1899-03: Colombian civil war | 120,000 |
| 1899-02: Philippines vs USA | 20,000 |
| 1900-01: Boxer rebels against Russia, Britain, France, Japan, USA against rebels | 35,000 |
| 1903: Ottomans vs Macedonian rebels | 20,000 |
| 1904: Germany vs Namibia | 65,000 |
| 1904-05: Japan vs Russia | 150,000 |
| 1910-20: Mexican revolution | 250,000 |
| 1911: Chinese Revolution | 2,400,000 |
| 1911-12: Italian-Ottoman war | 20,000 |
| 1912-13: Balkan wars | 150,000 |
| 1915: the Ottoman empire slaughters Armenians | 1,200,000 |
| 1915-20: the Ottoman empire slaughters | 500,000 |
| 1916-23: the Ottoman empire slaughters | 830,000 |
| 1914-18: World War I | 20,000,000 |
| 1916: Kyrgyz revolt against Russia | 120,000 |
| 1917-21: Soviet revolution | 5,000,000 |
| 1917-19: Greece vs Turkey | 45,000 |
| 1919-21: Poland vs Soviet Union | 27,000 |
| 1928-37: Chinese civil war | 2,000,000 |
| 1931: Japanese Manchurian War | 1,100,000 |
| 1932-33: Soviet Union vs Ukraine | 10,000,000 |
| 1932: "La Matanza" in El Salvador | 30,000 |
| 1932-35: "Guerra del Chaco" between Bolivia and Paraguay | 118 |
| 1934: Mao's Long March | 170,000 |
| 1936: Italy's invasion of Ethiopia | 200,000 |
| 1936-37: Stalin's purges | 13,000,000 |
| 1936-39: Spanish civil war | 600,000 |
| 1937-45: Japanese invasion of China | 500,000 |
| 1939-45: World War II | 55,000,000 |
| 1946-49: Chinese civil war | 1,200,000 |
| 1946-49: Greek civil war | 50,000 |
| 1946-54: France-Vietnam war | 600,000 |
| 1947: Partition of India and Pakistan | 1,000,000 |
| 1947: Taiwan's uprising against the Kuomintang | 30,000 |
| 1948-1958: Colombian civil war | 250,000 |
| 1948-1973: Arab-Israeli wars | 70,000 |
| 1949-: Indian Muslims vs Hindus | 20,000 |
| 1949-50: Mainland China vs Tibet | 1,200,000 |
| 1950-53: Korean war | 3,000,000 |
| 1952-59: Kenya's Mau Mau insurrection | 20,000 |
| 1954-62: French-Algerian war | 368,000 |
| 1958-61: Mao's "Great Leap Forward" | 38,000,000 |
| 1960-96: Guatemala's civil war | 200,000 |
| 1961-98: Indonesia vs West Papua/Irian | 100,000 |
| 1961-2003: Kurds vs Iraq | 180,000 |
| 1962-75: Mozambique Frelimo vs Portugal | 10,000 |
| 1962-75: Angolan FNLA & MPLA vs Portugal | 50,000 |
| 1964-73: USA-Vietnam war | 3,000,000 |
| 1965-66: Indonesian civil war | 250,000 |
| 1966-69: Mao's "Cultural Revolution" | 11,000,000 |
| 1966-: Colombia's civil war | 31,000 |
| 1967-70: Nigeria-Biafra civil war | 800,000 |
| 1969-: Philippines vs the communist Bagong Hukbong Bayan/ New People's Army | 40,000 |
| 1969-79: Idi Amin, Uganda | 300,000 |
| 1969-02: IRA - Norther Ireland's civil war | 2,000 |
| 1969-79: Francisco Macias Nguema, Equatorial Guinea | 50,000 |
| 1971: Pakistan-Bangladesh civil war | 500,000 |
| 1972: Burundi's civil war | 300,000 |
| 1972-79: Rhodesia/Zimbabwe's civil war | 30,000 |
| 1974-91: Ethiopian civil war | 1,000,000 |
| 1975-78: Menghitsu, Ethiopia | 1,500,000 |
| 1975-79: Khmer Rouge, Cambodia | 1,700,000 |
| 1975-89: Boat people, Vietnam | 250,000 |
| 1975-87: civil war in Lebanon | 130,000 |
| 1975-87: Laos' civil war | 184,000 |
| 1975-2002: Angolan civil war | 500,000 |
| 1976-83: Argentina's military regime | 20,000 |
| 1976-93: Mozambique's civil war | 900,000 |
| 1976-98: Indonesia-East Timor civil war | 600,000 |
| 1977-92: El Salvador's civil war | 75,000 |
| 1979: Vietnam-China war | 30,000 |
| 1979-88: the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan | 1,300,000 |
| 1980-88: Iraq-Iran war | 435,000 |
| 1980-92: Sendero Luminoso - Peru's civil war | 69,000 |
| 1984-: Kurds vs Turkey | 35,000 |
| 1981-90: Nicaragua vs Contras | 60,000 |
| 1982-90: Hissene Habre, Chad | 40,000 |
| 1983-: Sri Lanka's civil war | 70,000 |
| 1983-2002: Sudanese civil war | 2,000,000 |
| 1986-: Indian Kashmir's civil war | 60,000 |
| 1987-: Palestinian Intifada | 4,500 |
| 1988-2001: Afghanistan civil war | 400,000 |
| 1988-2004: Somalia's civil war | 550,000 |
| 1989-: Liberian civil war | 220,000 |
| 1989-: Uganda vs Lord's Resistance Army | 30,000 |
| 1991: Gulf War - large coalition against Iraq to liberate Kuwait | 85,000 |
| 1991-97: Congo's civil war | 800,000 |
| 1991-2000: Sierra Leone's civil war | 200,000 |
| 1991-2009: Russia-Chechnya civil war | 200,000 |
| 1991-94: Armenia-Azerbaijan war | 35,000 |
| 1992-96: Tajikstan's civil war war | 50,000 |
| 1992-96: Yugoslavian wars | 260,000 |
| 1992-99: Algerian civil war | 150,000 |
| 1993-97: Congo Brazzaville's civil war | 100,000 |
| 1993-2005: Burundi's civil war | 200,000 |
| 1994: Rwanda's civil war | 900,000 |
| 1995-: Pakistani Sunnis vs Shiites | 1,300 |
| 1995-: Maoist rebellion in Nepal | 12,000 |
| 1998-: Congo/Zaire's war - Rwanda and Uganda vs Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia | 3,800,000 |
| 1998-2000: Ethiopia-Eritrea war | 75,000 |
| 1999: Kosovo's liberation war - NATO vs Serbia | 2,000 |
| 2001-: Afghanistan's liberation war - USA & UK vs Taliban | 40,000 |
| 2002-: Cote d'Ivoire's civil war | 1,000 |
| 2003-11: Second Iraq-USA war - USA, UK and Australia vs Saddam Hussein and subsequent civil war | 160,000 |
| 2003-09: Sudan vs JEM/Darfur | 300,000 |
| 2004-: Thailand vs Muslim separatists | 3,700 |
| 2007-: Pakistan vs PAkistani Taliban | 38,000 |
| 2012-: Syria's civil war | 14,000 |