The Human Cost
400,000
estimated total dead
Aggregate figures for a 16-year war across multiple fronts; disease deaths are poorly documented and likely dwarf battle deaths.
Each dot below represents 1,000 human lives. Scroll to watch the scale unfold.
Working allocation: 250,000 soldiers killed in combat, from wounds, or from disease. Each = 1,000 lives.
150,000 civilians killed — from violence, famine, disease, and displacement. Wars are not fought only by soldiers.
incl. 5,000 civilians
incl. 8,000 civilians
incl. 3,000 civilians
How Siege of Vienna's dead compare to other conflicts and events.
100,000 dead
Casualty figures for the Great Turkish War are rough estimates. Contemporary records are incomplete, and military deaths from disease — which in this period typically exceeded battle deaths by a factor of three to five — are poorly documented for both sides.
150,000 dead
Civilian deaths include those from the devastation of Hungary and the Balkans during sixteen years of campaigning, including massacres, forced displacement, famine, and the destruction of towns. The Great Serbian Migration of 1690 alone displaced tens of thousands.
250,000 dead
Battle deaths listed here represent a fraction of total military losses. Disease — particularly dysentery, typhus, and malaria in the Balkan campaigns — killed far more soldiers than combat in every campaign season.