Caption
War Deaths 1945-2000
Summary
This “Worldmapper” map shows the number of war deaths by country from 1945 until 2000. Territory size shows the proportion of deaths worldwide directly attributed to war or conflict that occurred in each specific country during this period. China, Vietnam, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sudan suffered the highest number of war deaths during this period.
The map is accompanied by a table that shows the twenty countries with the most war deaths as a percentage of their total population. There is also a bar graph that shows the number of people (in millions) killed by war or conflict in different regions of the world.
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© Copyright 2006 SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan)
Used on QED by permission.
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