Every mass-casualty event, 1901–2025
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Each bubble is one event; area is people (deaths at the midpoint of the 95% interval). Color is the kind of sacrifice.
Comparison — deaths and share of the living
For the selected countries, centuries, and kinds. Percent uses each country’s largest contemporaneous population in the window as the denominator. Sorted by people sacrificed — click Sacrificed or % of population to re-sort.
Biggest sacrifices, by century
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Top four events per century in each kind, ranked by the measure above. If two 95% intervals overlap the events share a rank and are marked “≈ tie”. Exogenous (plague, famine, disaster) is ranked separately so a pandemic is not scored as murder.
Country
Every conflict in the current window, by country. Superscripts are bibliography numbers.