The Vietnam War

Vietnam War Casualties

Number of military casualties in the 1st Indochina war

Viet Minh
Viet Minh

500,000 killed (est.)

France
French Union Forces

89,797 killed and missing in action1

Number of military casualties in the 2nd Indochina war

North Vietnam
Democratic Republic of Vietnam & Viet Cong

1.1 million killed2

South Vietnam
Republic of Vietnam

220,357 killed in action3

USA
United States of America

58,256 killed and missing in action4

South Korea
Republic of Korea

4,407 killed in action5

Australia
Australia

487 killed6

Thailand
Thailand

351 killed5

New Zealand
New Zealand

37 killed7

Hmong
Laotian Meo / Hmong

30,000 killed8

  1. U.S.I.S., American Embassy, Paris, France: Facts and Figures, (March 1995), pp-39-40. Includes 72,200 from the French Expeditionary Corps and 17,597 from the Armies of the Associated States of Indochina.
  2. Agence France Presse, Hanoi government press release, (3rd April 1995)
  3. Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Southeast Asia Statistial Summary, (18th Febuary 1976)
  4. Names inscribed on the wall of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. Includes U.S. casualties in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. The Wall was originally dedicated in 1982 with 57,939 names.
  5. Tucker, The Encyclopedia Of The Vietnam War, (2001), pp64.
  6. Australian War Memorial
  7. Vietvet.org: New Zealand - Roll of Honour
  8. Eastimated number of Hmong tribesmen killed in Laos fighting the Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese.
    Warner, Shooting At The Moon, (1996), pp366.