Table 4.

The 25 deadliest multicides^∗

No	Event	Deaths (millions)
1	Second World War (1939–1945)	66
2	Chinggis Khan (1206–1227)	40
3	Hao Zedong (1949–1976)	40
4	Famines in British India (18th–20th centuries)	27
5	Fall of the Ming Dynasty (1635–1662)	25
6	Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864)	20
7	Joseph Stalin (1928–1953)	20
8	Midwest slave trade (7th–19th centuries)	18.5
9	Timur (1370–1405)	17
10	Atlantic slave trade (1452–1807)	16
11	Conquest of the Americas (after 1492)	15
12	First World War (1914–1918)	15
13	An Lushan Rebellion (755–763)	13
14	Xin Dynasty (9–24)	10
15	Congo Free State (1885–1908)	10
16	Russian Civil War (1918–1920)	9
17	Thirty-Year War (1618–1648)	7.5
18	Fall of the Yuan Dynasty (ca. 1340–1370)	7.5
19	Fall of the Western Roman Empire (395–455)	7
20	Chinese Civil War (1927–1937, 1945–1949)	7
21	Mahdi Revolt (1881–1898)	5.5
22	The Time of Troubles (1598–1613)	5
23	Aurangzeb (1658–1707)	4.6
24	Vietnam War (1959–1975)	4.2
25	The Three Kingdoms of China (189–280)	4.1

^∗From White, The Great Big Book of Horrible Things, 2012 (16).