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How many wars have happened in the world?
Ancient and modern war statistics

Since ancient times, how many wars have occurred in the world, roughly the following statistics:

According to incomplete statistics, there were 1453 1 wars in the recorded 5560 years of human history, with an average of 2.6 wars per year. In the 234 years from 1740 to 1974, it happened 366 times, with an average of 1.6 times a year. In the 37 years after the Second World War, including those still going on, there were 87 times, with an average of 2.3 times a year. During this period, there were 29 times in Asia, 26 times in Near East and North Africa, 7 times in Central and South Africa 10, 5 times in Central and South America10 and Europe.

According to the statistics of Swedish and Indian scholars, from 3200 BC to 5 164 in AD 1964, there were 14, 5 13 wars in the world, and only 329 years were peaceful. These wars have brought serious disasters to mankind, resulting in 3.64 billion deaths. When the lost wealth is converted into gold, a gold belt with a width of 150km and a thickness of 10m can be paved around the earth.

According to the statistics of scholars in the former Soviet Union, from BC/KOOC-0/496 to AD/KOOC-0/86/KOOC-0/year in 3357, human beings were in a state of war for 3/KOOC-0/30 years, and only 227 years were peaceful.

According to the statistics of a Hungarian professor, in the 37 years after World War II, more than 470 local wars broke out in the world. In the world, there are only 26 days without any war.

According to the investigation report of the Associated Press, about 300 local wars have broken out since the end of World War II, and about100000 people have died in the war.

The number of wars in China's history

China is a country with frequent wars. From slave society, feudal society and even modern times, people's uprisings and people's revolutionary wars are frequent; In history, the wars between the ruling class and the princes for cities and land are even more difficult to count. According to historical records, there were about 3,300 wars from Xia Dynasty to Ming Dynasty, more than 400 wars in Qing Dynasty and hundreds of wars in modern times. There are about 4000 ~ 5000 wars in the history of our country, accounting for about 1/3 of the total wars in the history of the world.

Data related to the two world wars

project

World War I

The Second World War

Number of participating countries

33

6 1

Number of neutral countries

17

six

period

1564 days (4 years, 3 and a half months)

2 194 days (6 years)

Total number of participating countries

65.438+0.5 billion people (accounting for 62% of the world population)

654.38+07 billion people (accounting for 80% of the world's population)

The number of people killed in the war

100000 people

32 million people

Number of injured

20 million people

35 million people

A country on whose territory military operations have been conducted.

14

40

Area of military operation zone

4 million square kilometers

22 million square kilometers

Number of recruits mobilized

70 million people

1100000 people

Statistics of World War I

World War I involved 33 countries with a population of 65.438+0.5 billion. Military operations involve a territory of 4 million square kilometers, with a front length of 2,500-4,000 kilometers. 19 14 The total population of Britain, France and Russia (including colonies) was 704.5 million, and the army force reached 9.777 million when the mobilization was completed; The total population of Germany and Austria (including German colonies) was 65.438+0.3 billion, and the army force was 6.34 million when the mobilization was completed. During the war, the Allies mobilized more than 4201.8 million troops, and lost more than 2201.5 million people, including 5 1.5 million people who died. Allied forces mobilized 22.85 million troops, resulting in losses of more than 6.5438+0.54 million people, including 3.38 million deaths. The direct war cost of the warring parties is about $654.38+0863 billion.

World War I loss statistics

World war I (1914 ~1918) lasted four years and three and a half months. Thirty-three countries on six continents participated in the war, involving a population of more than 654.38+0.5 billion. The warring parties mobilized more than 60 million troops, including more than 30 million casualties. About 65.438 million people died of hunger and other disasters because of the war, and the economic loss of the warring countries was about 270 billion US dollars.

Statistics of military casualties of major participating countries in World War I

country

Death (10,000 people)

Number of injured (10,000)

Missing and captured (10,000 people)

Total (ten thousand people)

It accounts for% of the total mobilization force.

Casualty rate

Germany

177.4

42 1.6

1 15.3

7 14.3