In case you care (which I doubt)


Not including recent conflicts like Syria.

    Conflicts since 1950 with over 10,000 Fatalities (all figures rounded)*
    1         40,000,000         Red China, 1949-76 (outright killing, manmade famine, Gulag)
    2         10,000,000         Soviet Bloc: late Stalinism, 1950-53; post-Stalinism, to 1987 (mostly Gulag)
    3         4,000,000         Ethiopia, 1962-92: Communists, artificial hunger, genocides
    4         3,800,000         Zaire (Congo-Kinshasa): 1967-68; 1977-78; 1992-95; 1998-present
    5         2,800,000         Korean war, 1950-53
    6         1,900,000         Sudan, 1955-72; 1983-2006 (civil wars, genocides)
    7         1,870,000         Cambodia: Khmer Rouge 1975-79; civil war 1978-91
    8         1,800,000         Vietnam War, 1954-75
    9         1,800,000         Afghanistan: Soviet and internecine killings, Taliban 1980-2001
    10         1,250,000         West Pakistan massacres in East Pakistan (Bangladesh 1971)
    11         1,100,000         Nigeria, 1966-79 (Biafra); 1993-present
    12         1,100,000         Mozambique, 1964-70 (30,000) + after retreat of Portugal 1976-92
    13         1,000,000         Iran-Iraq-War, 1980-88
    14         900,000         Rwanda genocide, 1994
    15         875,000         Algeria: against France 1954-62 (675,000); between Islamists and the government 1991-2006 (200,000)
    16         850,000         Uganda, 1971-79; 1981-85; 1994-present
    17         650,000         Indonesia: Marxists 1965-66 (450,000); East Timor, Papua, Aceh etc, 1969-present (200,000)
    18         580,000         Angola: war against Portugal 1961-72 (80,000); after Portugal's retreat (1972-2002)
    19         500,000         Brazil against its Indians, up to 1999
    20         430,000         Vietnam, after the war ended in 1975 (own people; boat refugees)
    21         400,000         Indochina: against France, 1945-54
    22         400,000         Burundi, 1959-present (Tutsi/Hutu)
    23         400,000         Somalia, 1991-present
    24         400,000         North Korea up to 2006 (own people)
    25         300,000         Kurds in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, 1980s-1990s
    26         300,000         Iraq, 1970-2003 (Saddam against minorities)
    27         240,000         Colombia, 1946-58; 1964-present
    28         200,000         Yugoslavia, Tito regime, 1944-80
    29         200,000         Guatemala, 1960-96
    30         190,000         Laos, 1975-90
    31         175,000         Serbia against Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, 1991-1999
    32         150,000         Romania, 1949-99 (own people)
    33         150,000         Liberia, 1989-97
    34         140,000         Russia against Chechnya, 1994-present
    35         150,000         Lebanon civil war, 1975-90
    36         140,000         Kuwait War, 1990-91
    37         130,000         Philippines: 1946-54 (10,000); 1972-present (120,000)
    38         130,000         Burma/Myanmar, 1948-present
    39         100,000         North Yemen, 1962-70
    40         100,000         Sierra Leone, 1991-present
    41         100,000         Albania, 1945-91 (own people)
    42         80,000         Iran, 1978-79 (revolution)
    43         75,000         Iraq, 2003-present (domestic)
    44         75,000         El Salvador, 1975-92
    45         70,000         Eritrea against Ethiopia, 1998-2000
    46         68,000         Sri Lanka, 1997-present
    47         60,000         Zimbabwe, 1966-79; 1980-present
    48         60,000         Nicaragua, 1972-91 (Marxists/natives etc,)
    49         51,000         Arab-Israeli conflict 1950-present
    50         50,000         North Vietnam, 1954-75 (own people)
    51         50,000         Tajikistan, 1992-96 (secularists against Islamists)
    52         50,000         Equatorial Guinea, 1969-79
    53         50,000         Peru, 1980-2000
    54         50,000         Guinea, 1958-84
    55         40,000         Chad, 1982-90
    56         30,000         Bulgaria, 1948-89 (own people)
    57         30,000         Rhodesia, 1972-79
    58         30,000         Argentina, 1976-83 (own people)
    59         27,000         Hungary, 1948-89 (own people)
    60         26,000         Kashmir independence, 1989-present
    61         25,000         Jordan government vs. Palestinians, 1970-71 (Black September)
    62         22,000         Poland, 1948-89 (own people)
    63         20,000         Syria, 1982 (against Islamists in Hama)
    64         20,000         Chinese-Vietnamese war, 1979
    65         19,000         Morocco: war against France, 1953-56 (3,000) and in Western Sahara, 1975-present (16,000)
    66         18,000         Congo Republic, 1997-99
    67         10,000         South Yemen, 1986 (civil war)

    *Sources: Z. Brzezinski, Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-first Century, 1993; S. Courtois, Le Livre Noir du Communism, 1997; G. Heinsohn, Lexikon der Völkermorde, 1999, 2nd ed.; G. Heinsohn, Söhne und Weltmacht, 2006, 8th ed.; R. Rummel, Death by Government, 1994; M. Small and J.D. Singer, Resort to Arms: International and Civil Wars 1816-1980, 1982; M. White, "Death Tolls for the Major Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century," 2003.

Mao Tse-Tung, by far the greatest post-1950 murderer.
This grisly inventory finds the total number of deaths in conflicts since 1950 numbering about 85,000,000. Of that sum, the deaths in the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1950 include 32,000 deaths due to Arab state attacks and 19,000 due to Palestinian attacks, or 51,000 in all. Arabs make up roughly 35,000 of these dead and Jewish Israelis make up 16,000.

These figures mean that deaths in Arab-Israeli fighting since 1950 amount to just 0.06 percent of the total number of deaths in all conflicts in that period. More graphically, only 1 out of about 1,700 persons killed in conflicts since 1950 has died due to Arab-Israeli fighting.

(Adding the 11,000 killed in the Israeli war of independence, 1947-49, made up of 5,000 Arabs and 6,000 Israeli Jews, does not significantly alter these figures.)

In a different perspective, some 11,000,000 Muslims have been violently killed since 1948, of which 35,000, or 0.3 percent, died during the sixty years of fighting Israel, or just 1 out of every 315 Muslim fatalities. In contrast, over 90 percent of the 11 million who perished were killed by fellow Muslims.