|
Rank
|
Death Toll
|
Event -20th Century
|
Dates
|
|
1
|
55,000,000
|
Second World War
|
1937/39-1945
|
|
2
|
40,000,000
|
China: Mao Zedong's
regime.
(incl. famine)
|
1949-76
|
|
3
|
20,000,000
|
USSR: Stalin's regime (incl. WW2-era
atrocities)
|
1924-53
|
|
4
|
15,000,000
|
First World War (incl. Armenian massacres)
|
1914-18
|
|
5
|
8,800,000
|
Russian Civil War
|
1918-21
|
|
6
|
4,000,000
|
China: Warlord & Nationalist Era
|
1917-37
|
|
7
|
3,000,000
|
Congo Free State
|
(1900)-08
|
|
8
|
2,800,000
|
Korean War
|
1950-53
|
|
8
|
2,800,000
|
2nd Indochina War (incl. Laos
& Cambodia)
|
1960-75
|
|
10
|
2,500,000
|
Chinese Civil War
|
1945-49
|
|
11
|
2,100,000
|
German Expulsions after WW2
|
1945-47
|
|
12
|
1,900,000
|
Second Sudanese Civil War
|
1983-(99)
|
|
13
|
1,700,000
|
Congolese Civil War
|
1998-(99)
|
|
14
|
1,650,000
|
Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Regime
|
1975-79
|
|
15
|
1,500,000
|
Afghanistan: Soviet War
|
1980-89
|
|
16
|
1,400,000
|
Ethiopian Civil Wars
|
1962-92
|
|
17
|
1,250,000
|
East Pakistan: Massacres
|
1971
|
|
18
|
1,000,000
|
Mexican Revolution
|
1910-20
|
|
18
|
1,000,000
|
Iran-Iraq War
|
1980-88
|
|
18
|
1,000,000
|
Nigeria: Biafran
revolt
|
1967-70
|
|
21
|
917,000
|
Rwandan Massacres
|
1994
|
|
21
|
800,000
|
Mozambique: Civil War
|
1976-92
|
|
23
|
675,000
|
French-Algerian War
|
1954-62
|
|
24
|
600,000
|
First Indochina
War
|
1945-54
|
|
24
|
600,000
|
Angolan Civil War
|
1975-94
|
|
26
|
500,000
|
Decline of the Amazonian Indians
|
(1900-99)
|
|
26
|
500,000
|
India-Pakistan Partition
|
1947
|
|
26
|
500,000
|
First Sudanese Civil War
|
1955-72
|
|
29
|
450,000
|
Indonesia: Massacre of Communists
|
1965-66
|
|
30
|
365,000
|
Spanish Civil War
|
1936-39
|
|
31
|
350,000
|
Somalia: Chaos
|
1991-(99)
|
|
32
|
400,000
|
North Korea: Communist Regime
|
1948-(99)
|
|
|
175,057,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The worst genocides of the 20th Century
|
|
|
THE MEN
|
|
1
|
Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1934-39)
|
13,000,000
|
|
2
|
Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945)
|
12,000,000
|
|
3
|
Hideki Tojo (Japan,
1941-44)
|
5,000,000
|
|
4
|
Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79)
|
1,700,000
|
|
5
|
Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94)
|
1,600,000
|
|
6
|
Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78)
|
1,500,000
|
|
7
|
Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915)
|
1,200,000
|
|
8
|
Yakubu Gowon (Biafra,
1967-1970)
|
1,000,000
|
|
8
|
Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982)
|
900,000
|
|
10
|
Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994)
|
800,000
|
|
11
|
Suharto (East Timor, West Papua, Communists, 1966-98)
|
800,000
|
|
12
|
Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan
1987-88)
|
600,000
|
|
13
|
Yahya Khan (Pakistan,
1971) vs Bangladesh
|
500,000
|
|
14
|
Fumimaro Konoe (Japan, 1937-39)
|
500,000
|
|
15
|
Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002)
|
400,000
|
|
16
|
Mullah Omar - Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001)
|
400,000
|
|
17
|
Idi Amin (Uganda, 1969-1979)
|
300,000
|
|
18
|
Yahya Khan (Bangladesh, 1970-1971)
|
300,000
|
|
18
|
Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Yugoslavia,
WWII)
|
300,000
|
|
18
|
Charles Taylor (Liberia, 1989-1996)
|
220,000
|
|
21
|
Foday Sankoh (Sierra Leone,
1991-2000)
|
200,000
|
|
21
|
Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1992-96)
|
180,000
|
|
23
|
Michel Micombero (Burundi,
1972)
|
150,000
|
|
24
|
Hassan Turabi (Sudan,
1989-1999)
|
100,000
|
|
24
|
Richard Nixon (Vietnam, 1969-1974)
|
70,000
|
|
26
|
Efrain Rios Montt
(Guatemala, 1982-83)
|
70,000
|
|
26
|
Papa Doc Duvalier (Haiti, 1957-71)
|
60,000
|
|
26
|
Hissene Habre (Chad, 1982-1990)
|
40,000
|
|
29
|
Chiang Kai-shek (Taiwan, 1947)
|
30,000
|
|
30
|
Vladimir Ilich Lenin
(USSR, 1917-20)
|
30,000
|
|
31
|
Francisco Franco (Spain)
|
30,000
|
|
32
|
Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-1999)
|
30,000
|
|
33
|
Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam, 1963-1968)
|
30,000
|
|
34
|
Hafez Al-Assad (Syria,
1980-2000)
|
25,000
|
|
35
|
Khomeini (Iran, 1979-89)
|
20,000
|
|
36
|
Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe,
1982-87, Ndebele minority)
|
20,000
|
|
37
|
Guy Mollet (France,
1956-1957)
|
10,000
|
|
38
|
Paul Koroma (Sierra
Leone, 1997)
|
6,000
|
|
39
|
Osama Bin Laden (worldwide, 1993-2001)
|
3,500
|
|
40
|
Augusto Pinochet (Chile, 1973)
|
3,000
|
|
41
|
Rafael Videla (Argentina,
1976-83)
|
3,000
|
|
42
|
Al Zarqawi (Iraq,
2004-06)
|
2,000
|
|
|
TOTAL
|
44,132,500
|
|
