How Many People Died In WW2? What country has the most deaths in World war 2?

In World War 2, an estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the 2.3 billion (est.) people on Earth.

Deaths directly caused by the war (including military and civilian fatalities) are estimated at 50–56 million, with an additional estimated 19–28 million deaths from war-related disease and famine.

Among the Soviet Union’s 15 republics, Russia withstood the highest number of casualties, with 6,750,000 military deaths and 7,200,000 civilian deaths.

Those totals do not include the more than 14 million Soviet soldiers who were wounded during the war.

Research in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union has caused a revision of estimates of Soviet World War II fatalities.

According to Russian government figures, USSR losses within postwar borders now stand at 26.6 million,[3][4] including 8 to 9 million due to famine and disease.

In August 2009 the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) researchers estimated Poland’s dead at between 5.6 and 5.8 million.

Historian Rüdiger Overmans of the Military History Research Office (Germany) published a study in 2000 that estimated the German military dead and missing at 5.3 million, including 900,000 men conscripted from outside of Germany’s 1937 borders, in Austria, and in east-central Europe.

The Red Army claimed responsibility for the majority of Wehrmacht casualties during World War II.

The People’s Republic of China puts its war dead at 20 million, while the Japanese government puts its casualties due to the war at 3.1 million.