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Created by: Belarius Created on: Monday March 05, 4:02 PM

Data file: Deaths Resulting From human Violence In The 20th Century, By Event

Data source: Twentieth-Century Atlas: Death Tolls

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Anonymous says:

this is interesting, but considering the grow in world population from 1900-2000, it would be nice to see what happens if we take in to account the total pop at the time, and perhaps also the time interval over which these deaths occured.
according to the link below, the world population almost quadrupled over the 20th century! geographyaboutcom/od/obtainpopulationdata/a/worldpopulation.htm

Posted Monday March 05, 9:16 PM
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Belarius says:

Done and done. Check my next two datasets/visualizations.

Posted Tuesday March 06, 6:22 AM

cgreen says:

Death by human violence includes abortions, which takes a human life at an earlier stage of growth than the other human violence events listed above.

There have been more than 32.5 million abortions in the twenty one years since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized unrestricted abortion on January 22, 1973.

Statistics on abortions taken from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, special research affiliate of Planned Parenthood Federation of America--the nation's largest provider and promoter of abortion, can be found at:

http://www.euthanasia.com/usstat.html

Posted Wednesday August 15, 2:12 AM
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Anonymous says:

It's interesting that people blame religion for the world's violence when the leading causes of death in the 20th century have resulted from atheism/naturalism institutionalized and taken to some seemingly-logical extreme (survival of the fittest, superior race, or whatever).

"The greatest evil does not result from people zealous for God. It results when people are convinced there is no God to whom they must answer."

http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6657

This certainly doesn't justify death caused because of religion, but it's not having religious convictions that results in oppression and hate, it's having wrong or misguided convictions.

Posted Sunday September 23, 5:26 PM
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Anonymous says:

Good point. And I guess the lesson for the future is, we can't let radical Islamists who have highjacked and warped the religion of Islam, to get nuclear weapons. If they do, the numbers of dead in the graph above may be dwarfed by much larger circles.

That is why we must stop the radical Islamofascist terrorists and their state sponsors. Thank God Saddam is gone, he was one of the threats. He had used WMD against his own people, was maintaining the capability and intellectual capital to build more, while shooting at American planes and harboring and paying terrorists.

Posted Thursday October 04, 8:37 AM
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Belarius says:

In counterpoint to the above comment, the prime causes of violent human death in the 20th century are quite clearly (a) warfare between nations and (b) civil war. I was therefore thrown for a loop that someone would propose these data support further warfare.

This is particularly true when you consider that, among totalitarian governments, the blame for violent death can be laid primarily at the hands of Stalinist Communism. As repressive and inhumane as modern totalitarian states are, they pale in comparison to the regimes of Stalin and Mao.

As to the assertion that deaths have been caused by religion made above, I'd counter that "war for religion" (such as the crusades) is more of a historical phenomenon than a modern phenomenon, when taking the world as a whole. Nationalism and its close cousin Fascism are much more dangerous today than religion is, because they're the main political forces that inspire bellicose aggression and internal oppression.

Posted Wednesday December 05, 4:12 PM

Anonymous says:

Is the data accurate?
Only 55k death during WWII? Weren't that many Japanese alone killen by the Americans in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Ten's of thousands also died during the partition of the indian subcontinent which isn't represented ...

Posted Saturday December 08, 7:16 PM
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Martin Wattenberg says:

The labels might be a little confusing: "55,000K" means "55,000,000" people killed during WWII.

A lot of the bubbles are too small to have labels, so the search box is a good way to find particular events. In the view associated with this comment, I highlighted the bubble for the partition orange.

Posted Sunday December 09, 9:52 AM
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Anonymous says:

This individual needs to open his/her min a little and not just clue in on what the local press says. CIA intelligence recorded in Oct 2002 that there were no nuclear weapons in Sadam Hussein's Arsenal, recorded to Bush Publicly. Read the book, "The prosecution of George W Bush" By Vince Bugliosi. Might open up your views a bit,

Posted Saturday July 05, 2:00 AM
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