Country

Personnel ¹

Military killed

Military wounded

Prisoners of war

Civilian dead

The Allies

Australia

680,000

23,250

39,750

26,250

–

Belgium

800,000

7,750

14,500

N/A

75,000 ²

Brazil

200,000

1000

4,250

–

–

Canada

780,000

37,500

53,250

9,750

–

China

5,000,000

1,324,500 ³

1,762,000

N/A

⁴

Czechoslovakia

180,000

6,750

8,000

–

310,000 ⁵

Denmark

15,000

4,250

N/A

–

–

Estonia

–

–

–

–

140,000

France

5,000,000

205,750

390,000

765,000

300,000

Greece

150,000

16,250

50,000

N/A

337,000 ⁷

India

2,394,000

24,250

64,250

79,500

–

Latvia

–

–

–

–

120,000

Lithuania

–

–

–

–

170,000

Netherlands, the

500,000

13,750

2,750

N/A

236,250 ⁸

New Zealand

157,000

12,250

19,250

8,500

–

Norway

25,000

4,750

N/A

N/A

5,500 ⁹

Poland

1,000,000

320,000

530,000

–

6,028,000 ¹⁰

South Africa

140,000

8,750

14,250

14,500

–

United Kingdom

4,683,000

264,500

277,000

172,500 ⁶

60,500

United States

16,353,750

405,500

671,750

105,000

–

USSR

20,000,000

13,600,000

5,000,000

N/A

7,720,000

Yugoslavia

3,741,000

305,000

425,000

–

1,355,000 ¹¹

The Axis Powers

Austria

800,000

380,000

800,000

N/A

145,000 ¹²

Finland

250,000

79,000

250,000

–

–

Germany

10,000,000

3,300,000

10,000,000

630,000 ¹³

3,063,000 ¹⁴

Hungary

350,000

147,500

350,000

–

280,000 ¹⁵

Italy

4,500,000

262,500

4,500,000

1,478,000

93,000 ¹⁶

Japan

N/A

1,140,500

N/A

11,600 ¹⁷

953,000 ¹⁸

Romania

600,000

300,000

600,000

N/A

145,000 ¹⁹

1) Peak strength of armed forces during World War II.

2) Includes approximately 25,000 Jews.

3) Estimates vary for Chinese military killed.

4) Estimates for Chinese civilian dead vary very widely, from 700,000 to 10,000,000.

5) Includes approximately 250,000 Jews.

6) 7,250 British prisoners of war died while in German captivity; 12,500 died while in Japanese captivity.

7) Includes approximately 260,000 deaths due to starvation.

8) Includes approximately 104,000 Jews, 25,000 civilian underground workers, and 15,000 deaths due to starvation.

9) Includes approximately 2,000 resistance fighters and 750 Norwegians serving in the German army.

10) Includes approximately 3,200,000 Jews.

11) Includes approximately 55,000 Jews.

12) Includes approximately 60,000 Jews.

13) Excluding those in the USSR.

14) Includes approximately 170,000 Jews.

15) Includes approximately 200,000 Jews.

16) Includes approximately 8,000 Jews.

17) Excluding those in the USSR.

18) Includes approximately 668,000 killed in air rades on home islands.

19) Includes approximately 60,000 Jews.

(N/A = not available. – = not applicable.)