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'''Conflict casualties''' occur in great numbers in many [[science-fiction]] books, films and comics - often at higher rates than in real-life conflicts and sometimes higher than the current human population of the [[Earth]]. Such high figures can be seen in part as a reaction to the much higher population growth that occurred throughout the twentieth century, though ideas of one-upmanship among [[author]]s cannot be discounted either.

The following are estimated numbers of casualties in various science fiction worlds.

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==Star Trek==
* The [[Dominion War]] - over 800 million Cardassians were killed by Jem'Hadar forces when the Female Shapeshifter ordered the death of the entire Cardassian race.  Another seven million Cardassians had already died in combat throughout the entire conflict.
* World War III - Approximately 600 million people had died in this conflict, which had taken place sometime in the mid 21st century.  About ten years after the war, Zefran Cochrane discovered warp drive.  His first warp flight attracted the attention of the [[Vulcan (Star Trek)|Vulcans]]s, who made first contact soon afterwards.  Within a century, not only had Earth recovered from the war, but had a unified world government and finally solved many problems that had dogged humans for centuries.
* The [[Xindi]] Attack - The Xindi attack of 2253 had killed about six million people.  These people died when a prototype Xindi weapon destroyed a section of land from Florida to South America.
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* Total War - terrorists blow up a number of [[City Block|City Blocks]], killing 4,000,000 citizens in the process.

==[[Fallout]]==
* The Great War of [[October 23]] [[2077]] and following nuclear winter reduces the population of the [[United States]] from 400 million to less than a million; It can be deduced that in China and elsewhere the death count is equally horrifying.
* In [[Fallout 2]], the Enclave devises a toxic agent to kill the remaining population of the world.