The Human Cost
160,000
estimated total dead
The 160,000 display total estimates deaths, while event totals generally include killed, wounded, missing, and captured. Disease and civilian deaths in occupied Chinese and Korean territory are 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.
20,000 civilians killed — from violence, famine, disease, and displacement. Wars are not fought only by soldiers.
How Russo-Japanese's dead compare to other conflicts and events.
52,000 dead
Russian military dead — a catastrophic defeat for a great power
88,000 dead
Japanese military dead — victory came at enormous cost
140,000 dead
Total military dead — shockwave felt around the world