<P> Statistics of military wounded are available for the major combatants . The tables below give a detailed country - by - country count of human losses . World War II fatality statistics vary, with estimates of total deaths ranging from 50 million to more than 80 million . The higher figure of over 80 million includes deaths from war - related disease and famine . </P> <P> Civilians killed totalled 50 to 55 million, including 19 to 28 million from war - related disease and famine . Military deaths from all causes totalled 21 to 25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war . Statistics on the number of military wounded are included whenever available . </P> <P> More than half of the total number of casualties are accounted for by the dead of the Republic of China and of the Soviet Union . The government of the Russian Republic in the 1990s published an estimate of USSR losses at 26.6 million, including 8 to 9 million due to famine and disease . The People's Republic of China as of 2005 estimated the number of Chinese dead at 20 million . </P> <P> In 2005 the German government listed the war dead of 7,395,000 persons, including Austria and men conscripted from outside of Germany's 1937 borders . The total number of German military dead was estimated at 5.3 million by Rüdiger Overmans of the Military History Research Office (Germany) (2000); this number includes 900,000 men conscripted from outside of Germany's 1937 borders, in Austria, and in east - central Europe . </P>

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