List of wars and disasters by death toll

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A death toll is the number of dead as a result of war, violence, accident, natural disaster, extreme weather, or disease.

Below is a list of death tolls for various infamous incidents. Most numbers are estimates and are often in dispute. The incidents are ranked by the highest estimate given.

Some events overlap categories.

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Deaths caused by humans

War and military action

These figures include deaths of civilians from diseases, famine, and atrocities as well as deaths of soldiers in battle.

Individual battles and sieges

Genocide and democide

Individual massacres, air raids, and concentration camps

Terrorism

Note that Terrorism can be considered a point of view. See the Terrorism article for discussion of the different meanings of the word.

Murder (other than through terrorism)

Human sacrifice

Riot or political demonstration

Deaths caused by natural disasters

Earthquake

A severe earthquake occurred on 5 July 1201 in the area of the eastern Mediterranean - (Upper Egypt, Syria). Every major city in the Near East was disrupted, and contemporary estimates put the total number killed at 1,100,000.

Volcanic eruption

A supervolcano that erupted at Lake Toba 74,000 years ago is thought to have reduced the global modern human population to less than 10 thousand individuals; see Toba catastrophe theory.

Tsunami

Extreme weather

Hurricane, typhoon, and tropical cyclone

Floods

Blizzards

Contractible disease

Famine

some of these famines may be partially or completely caused by humans

Death from other causes

Fire


See also List of historic fires

Explosion

not including bombings, aviation incidents and mine disasters

Coal mine disasters

Aviation

other than terrorism

Maritime

Wartime ship disasters

Peacetime ship disasters

Space travel

See also List of space disasters

Sporting events

Industrial accidents

Stampedes and Panics

Other accidents

Nuclear accidents

See List of nuclear accidents

See also

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