A list of all wars in the 20th and 21st centuries, based on data by COW, Prio and UCDP. Check the stats page for a summary of casualty data and nation-based stats. And get a preview of the experimental timeline of all wars since 1900.

If we look at humanities demise from a wider angle it looks more like this: Circa 300 separate wars since 1900; 2-300 million one-sided or battle deaths as a result; all the not so secret services led coup's and power plays around the world; More than 122 Million People Forcibly Displaced Worldwide; a billion or two dead through the systematic degradation of humanity. And this is only scratching the surface.

Philippine insurrection

1899 - 1902

20,500

Second Boer war

1899 - 1902

30,800

The War of a Thousand Days

1899 - 1903

100,000

The Dervish State vs Ethiopia, Britain and Italy

1899 - 1920

6,000

Sino-Russian War

1900 - 1900

4,000

The Boxer Rebellion

1900 - 1900

3,003

Uprisings in Colonial Angola

1902 - 1904

2,000

Ilinden Uprising

1903 - 1903

6,330

Second Yemen Rebellion

1904 - 1904

30,000

Uruguay Civil War

1904 - 1904

1,000

Southwest African Revolt

1904 - 1905

12,800

Russo-Japanese war

1904 - 1905

151,831

Dutch-Achinese War

1904 - 1907

24,200

Russian Revolution 1905

1905 - 1906

1,500

Maji Maji revolt

1905 - 1906

8,840

Zulu Rebellion

1906 - 1906

2,356

Sokoto and UK vs Mahdist Revolt

1906 - 1906

2,080

Third Central American war

1906 - 1906

1,000

4th Central American war

1907 - 1907

1,000

Romanian Peasant Revolt

1907 - 1907

2,000

Morocco unrest

1907 - 1908

1,400

Portugese war against Dembos

1907 - 1910

5,100

Ma al-’Aynayn’s Anti-Colonial Insurgency

1907 - 1910

3,150

Korean guerilla war against Japanese occupation

1907 - 1910

17,736

Iranian Constitution War

1908 - 1909

1,100

The second Rif War

1909 - 1910

10,000

French Conquest of Wadai Sultanate

1909 - 1911

12,000

Asir-Yemen Revolt

1910 - 1911

9,000

Mexican Revolution

1910 - 1920

125,000

Chinese Revolution

1911 - 1911

1,000

Cuba vs Partido Independiente de Color

1911 - 1911

1,050

Italo-Turkish War

1911 - 1912

20,000

First Sino-Tibetan War

1911 - 1912

2,000

Paraguay Coups

1911 - 1912

5,000

1st Balkan War

1912 - 1913

82,000

2nd Balkan War

1913 - 1913

60,500

Moro Rebellion

1913 - 1913

15,050

Kuomintang vs Chinese Army

1913 - 1913

5,000

Chinese Govt vs Bai Lang (White Wolf) Rebels

1914 - 1914

5,000

World War I

1914 - 1918

10,670,868

Southern China Revolt

1915 - 1918

1,000

Russia-Turkestan

1916 - 1917

1,350

Russian Revolution and Civil War

1917 - 1922

802,225

Second Sino-Tibetan

1918 - 1918

1,500

Finnish Civil War

1918 - 1918

15,150

Latvian Liberation

1918 - 1920

13,246

Estonian Liberation War

1918 - 1920

11,750

Caco Revolt

1918 - 1920

2,102

Sparticist Rising

1919 - 1919

2,170

Hungarian–Romanian War of 1919

1919 - 1919

11,750

Third Anglo-Afghan War

1919 - 1919

2,136

Hungary Civil War

1919 - 1920

1,500

Polish-Soviet War

1919 - 1920

100,000

First British-Waziristan War

1919 - 1920

2,000

Turkish War of Independence

1919 - 1921

40,000

Second Greco Turkish War

1919 - 1922

50,000

Nejd-Hejaz Wars

1919 - 1925

4,000

First Chinese Warlord War

1920 - 1920

35,000

Franco-Syrian war

1920 - 1920

3,500

Lithuanian-Polish War

1920 - 1920

1,000

Conquest of Mongolia

1920 - 1921

4,000

Green Rebellion

1920 - 1921

6,700

Iraq vs UK

1920 - 1921

9,540

Blackshirts vs Leftists

1920 - 1922

3,300

Third Rif War

1920 - 1926

70,000

Senussi Orden vs Italy

1920 - 1932

40,000

Kronstadt Rebellion

1921 - 1921

2,600

Moplah Riots in Kerala

1921 - 1922

2,450

Ireland freestaters vs Irregulars

1921 - 1922

4,000

Soviet-Turkestan War

1921 - 1923

3,500

Second Chinese Warlord War

1922 - 1922

20,000

Honduras Coup

1924 - 1924

1,000

Afghan rebels vs govt

1924 - 1925

2,000

Third Chinese Warlord War

1925 - 1926

1,000

Druze revolt

1925 - 1927

6,000

Northern Expedition

1926 - 1928

126,500

The Cristero War

1926 - 1929

10,000

Kuomintang vs Gansu Rebels

1928 - 1928

200,000

Second Afghan Anti-Reform War

1928 - 1929

15,000

Escobar Rebellion

1929 - 1929

2,000

Ikhwan Revolt

1929 - 1930

5,500

Kuomintang vs warlords

1929 - 1930

75,000

The Yên Bái Uprising

1930 - 1931

1,000

Saya San Rebellion

1930 - 1932

1,140

Communists vs Koumintang

1930 - 1935

500,000

Manchurian War

1931 - 1933

60,000

Xinjiang Muslim Revolt

1931 - 1934

21,000

Aprista Revolt in Peru

1932 - 1932

1,100

El Salvador, La Matanza

1932 - 1932

2,600

Brazilian Revolt

1932 - 1932

1,000

Chaco War

1932 - 1935

92,661

Saudi-Yemeni War

1934 - 1934

2,100

Spanish Socialists vs Govt

1934 - 1934

1,335

Italo-Ethiopian War

1935 - 1936

20,000

Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine

1936 - 1939

2,576

Spanish Civil War

1936 - 1939

466,300

Second British-Waziristan

1936 - 1939

10,200

Third Sino-Japanese War

1937 - 1941

1,000,000

Changkufeng Incident

1938 - 1938

1,726

The battle of Khalkhin Gol

1939 - 1939

28,000

The Winter War in Finland

1939 - 1940

151,798

World War II

1939 - 1945

50,000,000

Franco-Thai War

1940 - 1941

1,400

Indonesian Independence

1945 - 1946

5,400

Poland and Soviet Union vs Ukrainian Partisans

1945 - 1947

59,700

Soviet Union vs Baltic Partisans (’’Forest Brethren’’)

1945 - 1951

32,400

Chinese Civil War

1946 - 1949

1,200,000

Greece Civil War

1946 - 1949

154,000

First Indochina War Comm. vs France

1946 - 1954

377,523

Philippines, Huk rebels vs Govt

1946 - 1954

9,695

Madagascar Rebellion

1947 - 1947

6,952

Paraguayan Gvt vs Rebels

1947 - 1947

4,000

Taiwanese revolt

1947 - 1947

1,000

Telangana Rebellion and Indo-Hyderabad War

1947 - 1948

4,360

Indian Partition Communal Violence

1947 - 1948

200,000

Civil War in Mandatory Palestine

1947 - 1948

4,009

First Kashmir War

1948 - 1948

7,500

Yemeni Imamate War

1948 - 1948

4,000

Costa Rican Civil War

1948 - 1948

2,000

Arab-Israeli War

1948 - 1949

21,111

Cheju Rebellion in South Korea

1948 - 1949

17,000

Indian Govt vs Communist Rebels CPI

1948 - 1951

4,000

Malayan Civil War

1948 - 1957

10,845

La Violencia

1948 - 1958

29,800

Burmese Govt vs Communist Guerillas

1948 - 1994

17,700

Burmese Government vs Separatist Guerillas

1948 - 2017

56,028

Korean War

1949 - 1953

995,025

Taiwan Strait Crisis

1949 - 1954

10,025

Israel vs Palestine

1949 - 2017

17,403

Indonesian Govt vs Republic of South Moluccas

1950 - 1950

1,000

Third Sino-Tibetan War

1950 - 1950

4,000

Bolivian Revolution

1952 - 1952

1,000

Tunisian war of Independence

1953 - 1956

2,000

Moroccan War of Independence

1953 - 1956

1,000

Indonesia vs PRRI, Permesta and Darul Islam

1953 - 1961

33,965

Cuban Revolution

1953 - 1961

1,205

Kenya, Mau-Mau vs UK

1954 - 1956

12,955

Algerian War of Independece

1954 - 1962

184,886

Vietnam Civil War

1955 - 1964

164,923

Soviet Invasion of Hungary

1956 - 1956

3,171

Sinai War

1956 - 1956

2,142

Tibetan Uprising

1956 - 1959

16,000

Cameroon War of Independence

1957 - 1959

11,700

First Lebanese War

1958 - 1958

1,400

1959 Mosul uprising in Iraq

1959 - 1959

2,000

Rwandan Social Revolution

1959 - 1962

10,000

Laos Civil War

1959 - 1973

21,500

Cameroonian Govt vs UPC

1960 - 1961

60,000

Congo Crisis

1960 - 1965

7,175

Bizerte Crisis

1961 - 1961

1,394

First Kurdish–Iraqi War

1961 - 1970

6,600

Angolan War of Independence

1961 - 1975

79,000

Sino-Indian War

1962 - 1962

2,105

North Yemen Civil War

1962 - 1970

10,000

Indonesian annexation of West Papua

1962 - 1978

8,700

First Rwanda Civil War

1963 - 1964

21,000

Sudan Government vs Insurgents

1963 - 1972

10,000

Guinea Bissau War of Independence

1963 - 1973

15,000

Second Kashmir War

1964 - 1971

16,327

Mozambique War of Independence

1964 - 1974

13,500

Ethiopia vs Eritrean Separatists ELF/EPLF

1964 - 1991

168,510

Colombia Govt vs Guerillas Farc and ELN

1964 - 2016

31,937

Dominican Republic Coup

1965 - 1965

4,027

Vietnam War

1965 - 1975

2,048,050

Guatemalan Civil War

1965 - 1995

45,418

Peruvian Gvt vs Sendero Luminoso and MRTA

1965 - 2010

17,234

Namibia vs South Africa

1966 - 1988

10,000

Iranian Govt vs KDPI

1966 - 1996

2,618

Chad Civil War

1966 - 2010

36,078

The Six Day War

1967 - 1967

5,413

Nigerian Civil War

1967 - 1970

75,000

Cambodian Civil War

1967 - 1975

250,000

Chinese Cultural Revolution

1967 - 1976

2,050,000

Rhodesian Government vs ZANU,ZAPU,PF

1967 - 1979

27,080

Football War Honduras vs El Salvador

1969 - 1969

2,107

Israel vs Egypt

1969 - 1970

5,520

Philippine Government vs CPP Guerrilla

1969 - 2017

25,238

Philippines Govt vs Mindanao Guerillas

1970 - 2017

20,001

Bangladesh War

1971 - 1971

50,000

Sri Lanka Govt vs JVP

1971 - 1990

2,018

Northern Ireland, The Troubles

1971 - 1998

3,010

Rebellion and killings in Burundi

1972 - 1972

152,000

Chilean MIlitary Coup

1973 - 1973

2,095

Yom Kippur War

1973 - 1973

6,450

Turko Cypriot War

1974 - 1974

5,000

Balochistan Insurgency

1974 - 1977

8,600

Argentina: Civil War and Dirty War

1974 - 1977

4,677

Thai Govt vs CPT

1974 - 1982

3,425

Western Sahara War

1975 - 1989

12,687

Lebanese Civil War

1975 - 1990

132,518

Indonesian Govt vs Fretilin - East Timor

1975 - 1999

76,623

Angolan Gvt vs UNITA Guerilla

1975 - 2002

114,898

Ethiopian Government vs EPRDF

1976 - 1991

56,003

Ethiopian Govt vs Ogadeni Rebels - WSLF/ONLF/AIAI

1976 - 2016

23,432

Mozambique Govt vs RENAMO and FRELIMO

1977 - 2016

115,914

Ethiopia vs Oromia rebels (OLF)

1977 - 2017

3,432

Vietnam vs Cambodia (Kampuchea)

1978 - 1978

32,500

Uganda vs Tanzania

1978 - 1979

3,847

Iranian Revolution

1978 - 1979

1,100

Nicaraguan Gvt vs Sandinistas

1978 - 1979

10,000

Sino-Vietnamese War

1978 - 1988

47,046

Afghanistan Civil War

1978 - 2000

546,670

Syrian Govt vs Muslim Brotherhood

1979 - 1982

2,075

El Salvador Gvt vs FMLN Guerrillas

1979 - 1991

51,809

Cambodian Govt vs Khmer Rouge

1979 - 1998

87,499

Iran vs rebel groups (MEK,PJAK etc)

1979 - 2011

5,015

Iran vs Iraq

1980 - 1988

644,500

Uganda Civil War

1980 - 2017

129,047

South African Government vs African National Congress

1981 - 1988

4,087

Nicaragua Govt vs Contras

1981 - 1990

29,965

Falklands War

1982 - 1982

964

Iraq vs Kurdistan (KDP/PUK)

1982 - 1996

21,552

Iraq Government vs SCIRI

1982 - 1996

1,165

Somalia Rebellion and First Civil War

1982 - 1999

31,510

Indian Govt vs Sikh insurgents

1983 - 1993

14,551

Sudan Government vs Militias

1983 - 2017

100,820

Sri Lankan Govt vs Tamil Militants (LTTE)

1984 - 2009

73,837

Turkey Gov vs Kurdistan Guerilla (PPK)

1984 - 2017

31,283

Indian-Pakistani Dispute and Intrastate Insurgency in Kashmir

1984 - 2017

22,970

South Yemen Coup

1986 - 1986

10,000

Chadian-Lybian War (Aouzou Strip)

1987 - 1987

8,500

Romanian Revolution

1989 - 1989

909

Panama Coup and US Invasion

1989 - 1989

920

Political Violence during South Africa's post-apartheid transition

1989 - 1998

4,556

Liberia Civil War

1989 - 2003

23,249

First Gulf War

1990 - 1991

23,946

Rwanda Civil War and Genocide

1990 - 1994

507,754

Indonesia Gvt vs Aceh Liberation movement

1990 - 2005

3,754

Southern Lebanon War

1990 - 2006

1,944

Nagorno-Karabakh War

1990 - 2017

5,748

Northern Mali Conflict

1990 - 2017

3,891

Sierra Leone Civil War

1991 - 2000

20,157

Burundi Civil War

1991 - 2008

19,552

Georgia civil war and South Ossetia and Abkhazia conflict

1991 - 2008

3,538

Indian Govt vs Maoist Guerillas

1991 - 2017

8,164

Algeria Govt vs Islamic rebels, GIA, AIS, AQIM

1991 - 2017

20,965

Croatian Govt, irregulars vs Serbian Govt, irregulars, Rep. Krajina

1992 - 1995

4,819

Bosnian Govt vs Serbian and Croatian Insurgents

1992 - 1995

26,472

Tajikistan Govt vs Opposition

1992 - 2011

9,145

Hunde and allies vs Hutu, Banyarwanda

1993 - 1996

4,303

Congo Brazzaville Civil War

1993 - 2002

15,541

Russia vs Chechnyan Secessionists, the Caucasus Emirate, IS

1993 - 2017

24,235

North Yemen vs Secessionists

1994 - 1994

1,489

First and Second Congo Wars

1996 - 2002

80,018

Nepal Civil War

1996 - 2006

12,282

Yugoslavia vs NATO Forces and UCK Guerilla

1998 - 1999

3,631

Ituri Conflict

1999 - 2004

12,494

Eritrea vs Ethiopia

2000 - 2000

98,192

al-Qaida vs USA and allies

2001 - 2017

8,593

Afghanistan war

2001 - 2017

130,807

Civil War in Côte d Ivoire

2002 - 2004

1,472

Iraq vs US led coalition

2003 - 2003

7,927

Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant

2003 - 2017

143,539

Kivu Conflict

2004 - 2017

13,192

Iraqi Insurgency

2004 - 2017

17,198

Mexican Drug War

2004 - 2017

19,673

Lou Nuer vs Murle (Jonglei conflict)

2006 - 2017

3,495

Somalia Civil War

2006 - 2022

33,784

Waziristan conflict

2007 - 2017

33,599

Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon vs Boko Haram (ISWAP)

2009 - 2017

29,363

Yemeni Civil War

2009 - 2017

19,406

South Sudanese Civil War

2011 - 2017

7,483

Libyan Civil War

2011 - 2017

8,037

Syrian civil war

2011 - 2022

306,582

Sectarian Conflict in the Central African Republic

2012 - 2022

12,531

Russo-Ukrainian War

2012 - 2022

91,003

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