Q. How many American soldiers have died in US history?
Number of military fatalities in all major wars involving the United States from 1775 to 2021
| War (and years of U.S. military involvement) | Number of fatalities |
|---|---|
| American Civil War (1861-1865) | 620,000 |
| World War II (1939-1945) | 405,399 |
| World War I (1917-1918) | 116,516 |
| Vietnam War (1965-1973) | 58,209 |
Q. What percentage of the US population died in the war?
Statistics From the War 1
| Number or Ratio | Description |
|---|---|
| 750,000 | Total number of deaths from the Civil War 2 |
| 504 | Deaths per day during the Civil War |
| 2.5 | Approximate percentage of the American population that died during the Civil War |
| 7,000,000 | Number of Americans lost if 2.5% of the American population died in a war today |
Q. What are the odds of dying in the army?
Males accounted for 95% of the deaths with an overall fatality rate (100.6 per 100,000) over two times higher than for females (44.9 per 100,000) (Table DoD-1a). Whites accounted for 78% of all military deaths with an overall fatality rate of 99.1 per 100,000.
Q. What is the bloodiest battle in US history?
The Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam (US Civil War) — Fatality Rate: 3.22% Starting things off is the single bloodiest day in American military history: Sept. 17, 1862, the Battle of Antietam. Within the span of 12 hours, around 25 percent Union troops and 31 percent of Confederate troops were wounded, captured, or killed.
Q. What war killed the most people?
By far the most costly war in terms of human life was World War II (1939–45), in which the total number of fatalities, including battle deaths and civilians of all countries, is estimated to have been 56.4 million, assuming 26.6 million Soviet fatalities and 7.8 million Chinese civilians were killed.
Q. Which war killed the most American soldiers?
The war that killed the most American soldiers was the Civil War. Because it was fought on American soil pitting Americans vs. Americans it caused the largest death toll of American soldiers in history. At Gettysburg alone nearly 51,000 American souls were lost.
Q. What war caused the most deaths?
The American Civil War was the conflict with the highest death toll in the world after the 1815 Napoleonic Wars and until World War I in 1914. It is also the American war with the highest number of military deaths, followed by 405,399 deaths in World War II.
Q. What was the worst war?
World War II (1938-1945) – With a death toll between 40 and 85 million, the Second World War was the deadliest and worst war in history. Experts estimate with such a high death toll, about three percent of the world’s population at 1940 died.
Q. How many people have died in war?
In all the American wars there have been 651,008 Battle Deaths; and about 1.2million deaths during service in war time.About 42 million people have served in the military during wartime. About 1/50th of the people serving during a time of war have died.
