The Human Cost
200,000
disputed broad estimate
The 200,000 allocation is a disputed broad estimate and risks double-counting the same deaths in the Seven Years’ War entry. Military disease deaths, settler losses, and Indigenous deaths are especially incomplete.
Each dot below represents 1,000 human lives. Scroll to watch the scale unfold.
Working allocation: 140,000 soldiers killed in combat, from wounds, or from disease. Each = 1,000 lives.
60,000 civilians killed — from violence, famine, disease, and displacement. Wars are not fought only by soldiers.
incl. 200 civilians
incl. 200 civilians
How French & Indian War's dead compare to other conflicts and events.
1,400 dead
Battle of the Plains of Abraham — both commanding generals die
25,000 dead
American Revolution total dead — a direct consequence of this war's outcome
60,000 dead
Civilian and Native American dead — the hidden cost of empire
140,000 dead
Total estimated dead — in a war that remade North America