The definition of war victim is debatable, but I'm pretty sure any sensible definition will result in casualties much higher than 2 million since 1945. The numb

The definition of war victim is debatable, but I'm pretty sure any sensible definition will result in casualties much higher than 2 million since 1945. The number of soldiers of the North Vietnamese forces who died seems to be around 1 million, for example. If you include civilian casualties -- and why wouldn't you -- it seems that the Vietnam War alone cost almost 2 million people their lives. The number of murders seems to be around 450000 per year, world wide, with, I assume, lower numbers in the past due to a lower overall population. Still, easily more than 2 million since 1947. I'm not saying that in either of those figures the AK47 (or, in fact, any small arms) were significantly involved, but that wasn't the question.