Modern wars with fewer than 25,000 deaths by death toll

Modern wars with fewer than 25,000 deaths by death toll

• 22,000+ – Dominican Restoration War – One estimate placed total Spanish deaths from all causes at 18,000. The fatal losses among the Dominican insurgents were estimated at 4,000.^[28]
• 21,000+ – Six-Day War^[119]
• 20,000+ – Yaqui Wars^[21]
• 20,000+ – War of the Quadruple Alliance^[28]
• 20,000+ – Ragamuffin War^[120]
• 20,000+ – Italo-Turkish War^[21]
• 19,619+ – Rhodesian Bush War
• 19,000+ – Mexican–American War^[21]
• 18,069–20,069 – First Opium War^[121]
• 17,294+ – 1940–44 insurgency in Chechnya
• 17,200+ – First Anglo-Afghan War^[122]
• 16,765–17,065 – Balochistan conflict^{[123][124][125]}
• 16,000+ – War of the Pacific
• 16,000+ – Nepalese Civil War
• 16,000+ – Spanish–American War^[21]
• 15,200–15,300 – Peasants' War (1798) – Part of the French Revolutionary Wars
• 15,000+ – Nigerian Sharia conflict^{[126][127][128]}
• 14,460–14,922 – South African Border War
• 14,077–22,077 – Mau Mau Uprising
• 13,929+ – Republic of the Congo Civil War (1997-99)^[99]
• 13,812+ – Naxalite-Maoist insurgency^[129][130]
• 13,583–15,970 - Croatian War of Independence
• 13,100–34,000 – Kurdish separatism in Iran^[119]
• 13,073-26,373 - 1948 Arab–Israeli War (1948-1949)^[131]
• 11,500–12,843 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 – Part of the Bangladesh Liberation War
• 10,000+ - Assam separatist movements (1979–present)
• 10,000+ – Malayan Emergency^[132]
• 10,000+ – War in Donbass^[133] – Part of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine (2014–present)
• 10,000+ – Rwandan Civil War
• 10,000+ – First Italo-Ethiopian War^[21]
• 10,000+ – Second Melillan campaign^[21]
• 10,000+ – Hispano-Moroccan War (1859–60)^[21]
• 10,000+ – Spanish conquest of Tripoli^[134]
• 9,400+ – Libyan Civil War (2011) (2011)^[135]
• 8,136+ – Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal) (2011–2014)^[136]
• 7,500–21,741 – War of 1812 (1812–1815)^[21][137]
• 7,400–16,200 – Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) (2015–present)
• 7,050+ - Portuguese conquest of Goa (1510)^[138]
• 7,104+ – Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 (1947–1949)^[139]
• 7,000+ – Chadian Civil War (2005–10) (2005–2010)^[140]
• 6,800–13,459 – Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 (1965)
• 6,543+ – South Thailand insurgency (2004–present)^[141]
• 6,295+ – Central African Republic conflict (2012–present)
• 5,641+ – Sudanese nomadic conflicts (2009–present)^[142][143]
• 5,100+ – Gaza–Israel conflict (2006–present) – Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict
• 5,000+ – Casamance conflict (1982–2014)^[144]
• 5,000+ – Chilean Civil War of 1891 (1891)^[145]
• 5,000+ - Cuban Revolution (1959)^[146]
• 4,715+ – Libyan Civil War (2014–present) (2014–present)
• 4,000–10,000 – Conflict in the Niger Delta (2004–present)^[147]
• 3,699+ – Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen (1992–present)^[99]
• 3,552+ – First Schleswig War (1848–1852)
• 3,529+ – The Northern Ireland Troubles (1966–1998)^[148]
• 3,366+ – Insurgency in the North Caucasus (2009–2017)^[149]
• 3,270+ – Second Schleswig War (1864)
• 3,222–3,722 – Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (1956)
• 3,144+ – Allied Democratic Forces insurgency (1996–present)
• 3,114+ – 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine (1947–1948) – Part of the 1948 Palestine war
• 3,007+ – War of the Golden Stool (1900)^{[citation needed]}
• 3,000–6,000 – Negro Rebellion (1912)^[150][151]
• 3,000-5,000 - Croatian-Slovene Peasant Revolt (1573) ^[152]
• 3,000+ – Second Ivorian Civil War (2010–2011)^[153]
• 3,000+ – Banana Wars (1914–1933)^[47]
• 2,944+ – Insurgency in the Maghreb (2004–present)
• 2,800+ – Northern Mali conflict (2012–present)
• 2,781+ – Iranian Revolution (1978–1979)^[154]
• 2,751+ – Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919)^[155]
• 2,557+ – Sudan internal conflict (2011–present) (2011–present)^{[156][157][158]}
• 2,394+ – Sinai insurgency (2011–present)^[159]
• 2,300+ – Conflict in the Niger Delta (2003–present) ^[160][161]
• 2,221–2,406 – 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict (2014) – Part of the Gaza–Israel conflict
• 2,150+ – Persian Expedition of 1796 (1796)
• 2,096+ – Aden Emergency (1963-1967)
• 2,054+ – South Yemen insurgency (2009–2015)
• ~2,014 – Irish War of Independence (1919–1921)
• 2,000+ – Costa Rican Civil War (1948)^{[citation needed]}
• 2,000+ – Six-Day War (2000) (2000)^[162]
• 2,000+ – 2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes (2010)^{[163][164][165]}
• 2,000 - Iran crisis of 1946 (1946)^[166]
• 1,810+ – Anglo-Iraqi War (1941) – Part of World War II
• 1,774+ – Lapland War (1944-1945) – Part of World War II
• 1,643–2,237 – War of Transnistria (1992)^{[167][168][169][170]}
• 1,500+ – Irish Civil War (1922–1923)
• 1,449+ – M23 rebellion (2012-2013) – Part of the Kivu Conflict
• 1,300+ – Allied Democratic Forces insurgency (1996–present)^[171]
• 1,295+ – Siachen conflict (1984–present)
• 1,229+ – Basque conflict (1959–2011)^[172]
• 1,227–5,600 – Kargil War (1999)^{[173][174][175][176]}
• 1,119+ – Post-coup unrest in Egypt (2013–2014) (2013–2014)^[177]
• 1,043+ – Burundian unrest (2015–present)
• 1,000–1,500 – Cabinda conflict (1994–present)^[178]
• 1,000+ – Djiboutian Civil War (1991–1994)
• 1,000+ – 1991–92 South Ossetia War (1991–1992)^[179]
• 1,000+ – Xinjiang conflict (1960–present)
• 1,000+ – Chincha Islands War (1864–1866)^[21]
• 907 – Falklands War (1982)^[180]
• 898 – Barbary Wars (1801–1815)
• 846 – 2011 Egyptian revolution (2011)^[181]
• 820 – Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon (2011–2017)^{[citation needed]} – Part of the Syrian Civil War
• 808 – Sino-Russian border conflicts (1652-1689)
• 803-1303 - Conflict in Najran, Jizan and Asir (2015-present) – Part of the Yemeni Civil War (2015-present)
• 789–1,874 – 2001–02 India–Pakistan standoff (2001–2002)
• 771 – Insurgency in Egypt (2013–present) (2013–present)
• 740 – Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation (1963–1966)^[182][183]
• 722 – Kamwina Nsapu rebellion (2016–present)
• 700–800 – Anglo-Aro War (1901-1902)^{[citation needed]}
• 659–2,496 – Russia–Georgia war (2008)^{[184][185][186][187][188]}
• 643–1,500 – Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile (2011–present)^[158][157]
• 547 – Cyprus Emergency (1955–1959)
• 542 – East Prigorodny Conflict (1992)^{[citation needed]}
• 422 – Franco-Thai War (1940–1941)^{[citation needed]}
• 339 – Turkey–ISIL conflict (2015–present)^{[citation needed]}
• 327 – RENAMO insurgency (2013–present)
• 275–569 – Second Afar insurgency (1995–present) Part of the Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict
• 236 – Batwa-Luba clashes (2013–present)
• 233 – Anglophone Crisis (2017–present)^[a]
• 213-523+ Jebel Akhdar War (1954-1959)^[194]
• 206–345 – Arab separatism in Khuzestan (1922–present)^{[citation needed]}
• 200 – 1935 Yazidi revolt (1935)^{[citation needed]}
• 174–194 – United States occupation of Veracruz (1914)^[195]
• 159 – ISIL insurgency in Tunisia (2015–present)^{[citation needed]}
• 158 – Dissident Irish Republican campaign (1998–present)^{[citation needed]}
• 126 – 2016 Kasese clashes (2016)^[196][197]
• 115 – The Pool War (2016–present)
• 108 – Islamist insurgency in Mozambique (2017–present)^[b]
• 102–227 – India–Pakistan military confrontation (2016–present) (2016–present)
• 95 – 2013 Guinea clashes (2013)^[209]
• 84–134 – Lahad Datu standoff (2013)^[210][211]
• 82 – Quasi-War (1798-1800)
• 82 – North-West Rebellion (1885) ^[212]
• 71 – Paraguayan People's Army insurgency (2005–present)^{[citation needed]}
• 63 – Ten-Day War (1991)
• 46 – Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli (1954)
• 39-111 – India–Pakistan border skirmishes (2014–2015) (2014-2015)
• 37 – 2013 India–Pakistan border skirmishes (2013)
• 36 – DHKP/C insurgency in Turkey (1990–present)^{[citation needed]}
• 36 – 2016 Niger Delta conflict (2016–Present) ^[213] – Part of the Conflict in the Niger Delta
• 12–61 – 2017 Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmish (2017) – Part of the Afghanistan–Pakistan skirmishes
• 11–30 – 2008 Kufra conflict (2008)
• 8 – 2011 India–Pakistan border skirmish (2011)