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AMERICAN CASUALTIES FROM MAJOR WARS

Military
Conflict Population Personnel Ratio Fatalities Ratio
[%of [% of
[millions] [thousands] Population] Population]
Revolutionary War 3.5 200 5.7% 4,435 0.127%
War of 1812 7.6 286 3.8% 2,260 0.030%
Mexican War 21.1 79 0.4% 1,733 0.008%
Civil War
Union 10.7%
26.2 2,803 110,070 0.420%
Confederate 13.1%
8.1 1,064 74,524 0.920%
Combined 11.1%
34.3 3,868 184,594 0.538%
Spanish-American
War 0.4%
74.6 307 385 0.001%
World War I 4.6%
102.8 4,744 53,513 0.052%
World War II 12.2%
133.5 16,354 292,131 0.219%
Korean War 3.8%
151.7 5,764 33,651 0.022%
Vietnam War 4.3%
204.9 47,369 0.023%
First Persian Gulf War 8,744 1.1%
260.0 2,750 148 0.000%
AMERICAN COSTS OF MAJOR WARS
Total Direct Total Direct Per
Costs of Wars Costs of Wars capita Cost
Conflict cost
(billions) (billions)
[% of an-
[Current $] [2002 $] [2002 $] nual GDP]

Revolutionary Wars (1775-1783) 447 63
0.1 2.2
War of 1812 (1812-1815) 120 13
0.09 1.1
Mexican War (1846-1848) 68 3
0.07 1.6
Civil War (1861-1865)
Union 1,357 84
3.2 38.1
Confederate
2.0 23.8 2,749 169
Combined
5.2 62.0 1,686 104
Spanish-American
War (1898)
0.4 9.6 110 3
World War I (1917-1918)
16.8 190.6 2,489 24
World War II (1941-1945)
285.4 2,896.3 20,388 130
Korea (1950-1953)
Vietnam (1964-1972) 54.0 335.9 2,266 15
First Gulf War (1990-1991) 111.0 494.3 2,204 12
61.0 76.1 306 1

The tables above reveal the losses inflicted on America by the great wars in which she participated.