Up to the end of 1945, about 17 million people had died in wars, rebellions and uprisings. This number is about half the world death toll for the 2nd World War.
In one study through 1987, the following war deaths were catalogued: Latin America: Columbia, about 100 deaths a year since 1958; El Salvador, 65,000 deaths since 1979; Guatemala, 138,000 since 1966; Nicaragua, 30,000 since 1981; Peru, 10,000 since 1981. Middle East: Iran-Iraq, 377,000 live in eight years; Lebanon, 52,000 since 1982; (the study does not include countries in which uprisings have taken fewer than 1,000 lives a year, as in Israel). Africa: Angola and Namibia, 213,000 since 1975; Chad, 7,000 since 1980; Ethiopia, 500,000 by war and related famine since 1980; Western Sahara, 10,000 since 1975; Mozambique, 400,000 since 1981; South Africa 4,000 since 1985; Sudan, 10,000 since 1984; Uganda, 102,000 since 1981. Asia: Afghanistan, 14,000 Soviet troops and 85,000 Afghans since 1979; Burma, 2,000 since 1985; separatist violence in India, 5,000 since 1984; Indonesia (no reliable estimates from East Timor); Cambodia, 24,000 since 1979; the Philippines, 60,000 since 1970; Sri Lanka, 6,000 since 1984.