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Here's roughly half a billion.

85,000,000 – World War II (1939–1945), (see World War II casualties)

70,000,000 – Mongol conquests (1206–1324)[1][2][3][4]

40,000,000 – Three Kingdoms War (184–280)[5][6]

12,000,000 – Eastern Front (1941–1945), (refer to Eastern Front (World War II) casualties)

25,000,000 – Qing dynasty conquest of Ming Dynasty 

(1616–1662)[7]

20,000,000 – Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864)[8] – may be underestimated

20,000,000 – Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) [9] - Part of World War II

17,000,000 – World War I/Great War (1914–1918) (see World War I casualties)

13,000,000 - An Lushan Rebellion (755–763)[10] – may be underestimated

7,500,000 – Chinese Civil War (1927–1949)[11]

20,000,000 – Conquests of Tamerlane (1370–1405)[12][13]

9,000,000 – Russian Civil War and Foreign Intervention (1917–1922)[14]

10,000,000 - Dungan revolt (1862–77)

10,000,000[15] – Indian Rebellion of 1857

6,000,000 – Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) (see Napoleonic 

Wars casualties)

11,500,000 – Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)[16]

5,400,000 – Second Congo War/Great War of Africa (1998–2003)[17][18][19][20]

4,000,000 – French Wars of Religion (Huguenot Wars) (1562–1598)[21]

2,000,000 – Shaka's conquests (1816–1828)[22]

1,200,000[23] – Korean War (1950–1953)

873,000[24] – Conquests of Mehmed II 'the Conqueror' (1451-1481) – may either be underestimated or overestimated

800,000–3,800,000[24] – Vietnam War/Second Indochina War (1955–1975)[25][26]

1,000,000–2,000,000 – Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)[27]

1,100,000 Siege of Jerusalem (73).

1,000,000 – Iran–Iraq War/First Persian Gulf War (1980–1988)[28]

1,000,000 – Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)[29]

1,000,000 Biafra War (1967-1970)

957,865–1,622,865 – Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989)[30][31][32]

868,000–1,400,000 – Seven Years' War (1756–1763)[33][34]

618,000 – American Civil War (1861–1865)[35]

500,000 – Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) [36]

400,000–1,000,000 – Gallic Wars (58–50 BC)

400,000+ – First Indochina War (1946–1954)

400,000 – Civil war in Afghanistan (1989–92), Civil war in Afghanistan (1992–96) and Civil war in Afghanistan (1996–2001) (1989–2001)[37]

350,000–1,500,000 - Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962)[38]

350,000 – Third Northern War (1700–1721)[39]

315,000–735,000 – Wars of the Three Kingdoms (1639–1651)[40]

300,000–3,000,000[41] – Bangladesh Liberation War (1971)

300,000 – Second Burundian Civil War (1993–2005)[42]

300,000 (TFG)–500,000+ (AFP) – Somali Civil War[43][44][45]

272,000–1,260,009 – War on Terror (2001–present)[46][47][48]

234,000 – Philippine–American War (1899–1912)[49]

202,354–282,354 – Syrian Civil War (2011–present), see 

Casualties of the Syrian civil war

200,000 – Colombian conflict (1964–present) (1964–present)[50]

200,000–1,000,000 – Albigensian Crusade (1208–1259)[51][52]

200,000–500,000 — Lord's Resistance Army insurgency (1987–present)[53]

200,000 – Algerian Civil War (1991–2002)[54][55]

178,258–461,520 – War in Darfur (2003–present)[56]

176,913–1,120,000 – Iraq War/Third Persian Gulf War (2003–2011), see Casualties of the Iraq War, part of the War on Terror[47][48][57]

138,800–320,100 – Iraqi–Kurdish conflict (1918–2003)[58][59]

120,000–384,000 – Great Turkish War (1683–1699) (see Ottoman-Habsburg wars)

120,000 – Islamic insurgency in the Philippines (1969–present)[60]

115,311 – Arab–Israeli conflict (1920–present)[61]

106,800+ – Mexican Drug War (2006–present)[62][63]

100,000–400,000 – Western New Guinea (1984–) (see Genocide in West Papua)

100,000 – Insurgency in Laos (1975–2007)[64]

100,000 – German Peasants' War (1524–1525)[65]

97,000-107,000 – Aceh War (1873–1914)[66]

90,969 – Mahdist War (1881–1889)

90,000+ – Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War (1018–1019)[67]

85,000–235,000 – 1991 uprisings in Iraq (1991)[68][69][70]

80,000–100,000 – Sri Lankan Civil War (1983–2009)[71]

63,500–88,500 – Mozambican War of Independence (1964–1974)[72]

60,000 – Ituri conflict (1999–2007)[73]

47,246–61,603 – War in Afghanistan (2001–present) (2001–present), part of the War on Terror[57]

45,852 – 78,946 – War in North-West Pakistan (2004–present), part of the War on Terror[57]

45,000 – Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1979–2013)[74]
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