That would be interesting, as long as you focus on civilian deaths and normalize for population. My guess would be iran due to their heavy involvement in both the iraqi and syrian civil war. The saudis are also contenders with their yemen war. Then I would guess the US, turkey and russia.

We are moving into a multipolar world and interesting times.

This millennium? Probably Syria.

>> Unrelated: if there were there a chart that shows the number of people killed by each country per year in this millennia -- what countries do you think will "in the lead" by an order of magnitude at least from the rest?

> This millennium? Probably Syria.

How did you come to that conclusion? Though the question is far to ambiguous (what does "killed by" mean, exactly?), I'd assume Germany would be ahead of Syria, given that any reasonable count would include those killed in the Holocaust plus allied casualties from WWI and WWII (where all cases where there's clearly established intent to kill by the regime). The Syrian civil was was bad, but not that bad. I'm not aware of anything of similar magnitude there after 1900, and the numbers of anything before would be lessened by lower populations and less effective military technology.

I presumed that "this millennium" meant "since 2000". That removes Germany.

Ah, now I see. I'm just stuck in the 20th century. I suppose I should be glad I still don't accidentally write "19" for the century on my checks.

Not sure about millenia but in the last century the communists have done well, about 65 million for China and 20 for the Soviet Union.