Nearly 170 million people probably have been murdered by governments in the 20th Century, 1900-1987; over four-times those killed in combat in all international and domestic wars during the same years. What are the statistics of this global bloodbath and what governments have done this? What about the United States?

• Definitions
  • The new concept of democide: Definition and qualifications [1]
  • Article: What is Genocide?
  • Democide versus genocide: which is what?

• Chapter: 1900-1987: 169,198,000 murdered [1]
  • Article: pilot study: war isn't this century's biggest killer
  • References: overall sources of estimates/quotes/information [5]
  • Table: summary by regime [5]
  • Figure: democide year-by-year and war and rebellion-dead [5]

• What governments murdered how many?
  • Table: summary of megamurderers--regimes that murdered 1,000,000 people or more [1]
  • Chapter: the centi-kilo murderers--regimes that murdered 100,000 to 999,999 people or more [5]
    • Tables: estimates, calculations, and sources, by states and by quasi-states [5]
  • Chapter: the lesser murderers--regimes that murdered less than 100,000 people [5]
    • Tables: estimates, calculations, and sources [5]
  • Chapter: American bombing and other democide [5]
    • Table: estimates, calculations, and sources [5]
  • Paper: how many did communism murder?
  • Chapter section: Khmer Rouge Cambodian democide [15]
  • Chapter section: Rwandan genocide [15]

• Chapter: democide in totalitarian states: mortacracies and megamurderers--an annotated bibliography
  
  
• Chapter: the Holocaust in comparative perspective

• Paper: democide since World War II

• Chapter: the social field of democide [5]
  • Tables: descriptive statistics among types of democide; their intercorrelations, and factors [5]

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The table in the upper right is from Table 1.2 of Death By Government.

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