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World War II casualties
Allied soldiers killed
Albania : 20,000
Australia : 23,400
Belgium : 12,000
Brazil : 493
Bulgaria (from 1944): 18,000
Canada : 37,500
China : 2,500,000 (CCP and KMT forces)
Czechoslovakia : 46,000
Denmark : 1,800
Ethiopia : 5,000
Finland (from 1944): 1,000
France and Free French Forces : 210,000
Greece : 88,300
India : 36,000
India : 24,300
Italy (from 1943): 17,500
Luxembourg : 4,000
Mongolia : 3,000
Netherlands : 7,900
New Zealand : 11,625
Norway : 2,000
Philippines : 27,000
Poland : 123,000
Romania (from 1944): 5,000
South Africa : 6,840
Soviet Union : 11,000,000
United Kingdom : 264,000
United States : 400,000
Yugoslavia : 300,000
TOTAL Allied soldiers killed: approximately 15.2 million
Axis Soldiers Killed
Bulgaria (to 1944): 9,000
Finland (to 1944): 81,000
Germany : up to 5,000,000 (includes Austrians and Sudeten Germans as well as other nationalities forced into or volunteering for the German armed forces)
Hungary : 200,000
Italy (to 1943): 60,000
Japan : 1,300,000
Romania (to 1944): 290,000
Spain : 3,334 (all volunteers)
Vichy France : 1,222
TOTAL Axis soldiers killed: approximately 7,000,000.
TOTAL soldiers killed (all): approximately 22 million.
Civilians killed
Albania : 11,000
Austria : 125,000
Belgium : 76,000
Bulgaria : 10,000
China : 32,500,000
Czechoslovakia : 294,000
Denmark : 2,000
Ethiopia : 5,000
Finland : 2,000
France : 350,000
Germany : 2,760,000 (including 200,000-2,000,000 World War II evacuation and expulsion )
Greece : 325,000
Hungary : 290,000
India : 2,150,000 (median estimate; estimates for deaths from the Bengal famine of 1943 alone varies 2 million to 4 million)
Italy : 153,000
Japan : 672,000
Netherlands : 200,000 (including 105,000 Dutch Jews)
Norway : 7,000
Philippines : at least 100,000
Poland : 5,680,000 (including Poles of Jewish origin)
Romania : 200,000
Soviet Union : 16,900,000
United Kingdom : 92,700
United States : 6,000
Yugoslavia : 1,200,000
TOTAL Civilians killed: approximately 39.2 million
TOTAL people killed in World War II: approximately 60 million
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