Battle Casualties in the Two World Wars

Killed and Died

Wounded

Prisoners/Missing

Country

WW I

WW II

WW I

WW II

WW I

WW II

Austria-Hungary

1,200,000

-

3,620,000

-

2,200,000

-

Belgium

13,716

7,760

44,686

*

34,659

70,000

British Empire

908,371

353,652

2,090,212

475,070

191,652

417,303

Bulgaria

87,500

*

152,390

*

27,029

*

China

-

1,310,224

-

1,752,591

-

115,248

Finland

-

52,609

-

125,000

-

*

France‡

1,357,800

166,195

4,266,000

408,895

537,000

1,500,000

Germany

1,773,700

3,250,000

4,216,058

4,000,000

1,152,800

11,741,000

Greece

5,000

77,200

21,000

*

1,000

*

Hungary†

-

75,000

-

*

-

*

Italy

650,000

60,000

947,000

*

600,000

700,000

Japan†

300

1,862,499

907

4,616,000

3

635,464

Montenegro

3,000

-

10,000

-

7,000

-

The Netherlands†‡

-

6,238

-

20,000

-

25,000

Norway†

-

1,000

-

*

-

*

Poland†

-

125,000

-

141,000

-

542,000

Portugal

7,222

-

13,751

-

12,318

-

Romania

335,706

80,000

120,000

*

80,000

594,000

Serbia

45,000

-

133,148

-

152,958

-

Soviet Union (Russia)†

1,700,000

6,750,000

4,950,000

*

2,500,000

*

Turkey

325,000

-

400,000

-

250,000

-

United States

53,407

293,986

204,002

670,846

§

§

Yugoslavia†‡

-

75,000

-

*

-

125,000

Total for Allies

5,152,115

9,186,111

12,831,004

-

4,121,090

-

Total for Axis Powers

3,386,200

5,380,000

8,388,448

-

3,629,829

-

*No reliable figures available.

† Broadly estimated.

‡ Prisoners only.

Missing only.

§ All such personnel now officially accounted for.

Chinese casualties are for 1937-45

Italian casualties on Allied side were 69,774 killed, 76,610 wounded, and 17,647 missing.