World War Two
Statistics & Data
Who Fought Whom?
Axis
Bulgaria |
Allies
Argentina |
OccupiedAlbania |
NeutralAndorra |
Main Leaders
Country |
Leader |
| France | Charles de Gaulle (Free French forces) Henri-Phillipe Petain - Vichy France |
| Germany | Adolf Hitler |
| Italy | Benito Mussolini |
| Japan | Emperor Hirohito |
| Russia | Josef Stalin |
| United Kingdom | Neville Chamberlain to 1940 Winston Churchill from 1940 |
| United States | Franklin Roosevelt died 1945 Harry Truman 1945 |
Numbers of Deaths
Death figures for World War Two vary from source to source. The figures below are believed to be reasonably accurate
Country |
Military |
Civilian |
Total |
| USSR | 12 million | 15 million | 27 million |
| China | 1.8 million | 7.5 million | 9.3 million |
| Poland | 400,000 | 5.86 million | 6.26 million |
| Germany | 3.25 million | 2.44 million | 5.69 million |
| Japan | 1.5 million | 500,000 | 2 million |
| Yugoslavia | 305,000 | 1.35 million | 1.66 million |
| Romania | 450,000 | 465,000 | 915,000 |
| Hungary | 200,000 | 600,000 | 800,000 |
| France | 245,000 | 350,000 | 595,000 |
| Great Britain | 403,000 | 92,700 | 495,000 |
| Italy | 330,000 | 100,000 | 430,000 |
| Austria | 280,000 | 125,000 | 405,000 |
| United States | 407,000 | 6,000 | 413,000 |
| Greece | 60,000 | 350,000 | 410,000 |
| Czechoslovakia | 7,000 | 315,000 | 322,000 |
| Netherlands | 13,700 | 236,000 | 249,000 |
| Philippines | 27,000 | 91,000 | 118,000 |
| Belgium | 23,000 | 76,000 | 99,000 |
| Finland | 80,000 | 10,000 | 90,000 |
| Bulgaria | 10,000 | 51,000 | 61,000 |
| Canada | 39,000 | 39,000 | |
| Australia | 35,000 | 35,000 | |
| Albania | 20,000 | 10,000 | 30,000 |
| India | 25,000 | 25,000 | |
| New Zealand | 17,000 | 17,000 | |
| *Civilian numbers include those killed as a result of the Holocaust* | |||
Victims of the Holocaust
Country |
Number of Deaths |
| Poland | 3 million |
| USSR | 1 million |
| Romania | 350,000 |
| Hungary | 250,000 |
| Czechoslovakia | 250,000 |
| Germany | 165,000 |
| Lithuania | 130,000 |
| Netherlands | 105,000 |
| Latvia | 70,000 |
| France | 65,000 |
| Austria | 65,000 |
| Greece | 65,000 |
| Yugoslavia | 60,000 |
| Bulgaria | 48,000 |
| Belgium | 25,000 |
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