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US Wars by Deaths Per Year

Can you name the wars that killed the most Americans per year?
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Avg. deaths
per year
Answer
~250,000
Civil War
140,000
World War II
116,708
World War I
18,082
Korean War
6,642
Mexican-American War
5,000
War of 1812
Avg. deaths
per year
Answer
3,234
Vietnam War
2,979
Revolutionary War
2,446
Spanish-American War
563
Iraq War
280
Philippine-American War
122
Afghanistan
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Jul 18, 2022
Not all years are alike. Using an example, WWII didn't really have ~140,000 deaths every year of the US involvement (1941-1945) as the deaths didn't really start going up after D-Day, in which the last year of the war had the most deaths (300,000+).