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Deaths
War Pop(M) Deaths per 100K Crisis?
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King Philip's War (1675-76) 0.05 800 1538 Yes
Revolutionary War (1775-83) 2.5 4,435 177.4 Yes
War of 1812 (1812-15) 9.8 2,260 23.6
Mexican War (1846-48) 23.2 1,733 7.5
Civil War (1861-65) 34.4 283,394 823.8 Yes
Spanish-American War (1898) 76.2 385 0.5
World War I (1917-18) 100 53,513 53.5
World War II (1941-46) 132 292,131 221.3 Yes
Korean War (1950-53) 151 33,667 22.3
Vietnam War (1964-73) 203 47,393 23.3
Persian Gulf War (1991) 249 148 0.1
Civil War and WW II, but it was a smaller percentage of a much larger
population in WW II. However, that's not surprising since the Civil
War was fought on American soil, but WW II was not.
Another difference is that the child mortality rate in the 1860s was
around 50%, while it was around 2% in the 1940s, meaning that 25 times
as many children lived to grow up and be old enough to be used as
cannon fodder in war.