How many soldiers were killed in WWII ?

Question

from all participating countries (including Germans)

Answer 1

In order of highest numbers of soldiers lost:
USSR 13,600,000
Germany 3,250,000
Japan 1,506,000
Poland 850,000
Rumania 520,000
United States 500,000
Romania 381,000
Austria 380,000
France 340,000
Italy 330,000
Great Britain 326,000
Yugoslavia 300,000
Czech Republic 246,000
Hungary 200,000
Netherlands 198,000
Greece 117,000
Finland 82,000
Belgium 76,000
Canada 39,000
India 36,000
Australia 29,000
Phillipines 27,000
Albania 20,000
Bulgaria 19,000
Bulgaria 18,500
New Zealand 12,000
South Africa 9,000
Ethiopia 5,000
Luxembourg 5,000
Denmark 4,000
Mongolia 3,000
Norway 2,200

As you can see the Russians took the heaviest toll in the second world war. These are only conservative estimates as this doesn't include MIA or injuries which lead to people dying later. Also the Soviets tried to supress the true number of deaths in the fighting and so the figure for the Soviets may still be too low

Answer 2

The Wikipedia reference states that 3% of the entire world's population died in that war 24 Million military and 38 Million civilians.
According to Wikipedia:
""Allied forces suffered approximately 17 million military deaths, of which about 11 million were Soviet and 3 million Chinese. Axis forces suffered about 8 million, of which more than 5 million were German. In total, of the military deaths in World War II, approximately 44% were Soviet soldiers, 22% were German, 12% were Chinese, 8% were Japanese, 9% were soldiers of other Allied forces, and 5% were other Axis country soldiers. Some modern estimates double the number of Chinese casualties originally stated.""

Answer 3

Assuming that by soldiers you mean all armed combatants, Wikipedia gives 24,456,700 deaths.

Note that casualties and fatalities are NOT the same thing, sort of. All fatalities are casualties but not all casualties are fatalities. A fatality means someone died, a casualty means someone was injured OR killed.

"Battle of the Bulge was only 39 days and we lost over 80,000 AMERICANS"

False. About 8,000 Americans were killed, the rest (72,000) were casualties.

Answer 4

Battle of the Bulge was only 39 days and we lost over 80,000 AMERICANS

Excuse me cap'n jack
American:
89,987 casualties
(19,276 dead,
23,554 captured or missing,
47,493 wounded)

British: 200 dead, 1400 wounded and missing

Answer 5

54.5 millon I believe is the approximate number in the Guiness world records- sorry I believe this is for everyone that died.