Lists of death tolls explained

"Organized by death toll" means

• list entries are ordered by death toll, or
• there is a table sortable on a column labeled "Death toll", "Casualties", or equivalent

General

• List of accidents and disasters by death toll
• List of famines, not included in natural disasters as some of them are at least partially anthropogenic

Accidents

• List of aircraft accidents and incidents by number of ground fatalities
• List of deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents
• List of airship accidents
• List of ballooning accidents
• List of elevator accidents
• List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
• List of rail accidents in the United Kingdom
• List of the deadliest firefighter disasters in the United States

Natural disasters including diseases

• List of costly or deadly hailstorms
• List of the deadliest tropical cyclones
• List of deadliest Pacific hurricanes
• List of epidemics
• List of tornadoes causing 100 or more deaths
• List of natural disasters by death toll
• List of avalanches by death toll
• List of deadliest floods
• List of foodborne illness outbreaks by death toll
• List of volcanic eruptions by death toll

Intentional killing, including collateral deaths

• American units with the highest percentage of casualties per conflict
• Deadliest single days of World War I
• List of battles by casualties
• List of battles with most United States military fatalities
• List of genocides by death toll
• List of major terrorist incidents
• List of mass shootings in the United States
• List of modern conflicts in the Middle East
• List of murderers by number of victims
• List of ongoing armed conflicts
• List of rampage killers
• List of serial killers before 1900
• List of serial killers by number of victims
• List of ships sunk by submarines by death toll
• List of terrorist incidents
• List of wars by death toll

Massacres

See also: List of lists of massacres by country.

• List of pogroms
• List of massacres at sea
• List of massacres in the Italian Social Republic
• List of massacres in Jerusalem
• List of massacres in Nagaland
• List of massacres of Kurds
• List of massacres of Nizari Ismailis
• List of massacres of Turkish people

By war

• List of massacres during the Algerian Civil War
• List of massacres in the Bosnian War
• List of massacres in the Croatian War of Independence
• List of massacres committed during the Eritrean War of Independence
• List of massacres in the Finnish Civil War
• List of massacres in the Kosovo War
• List of killings and massacres during the 1948 Palestine war
• List of massacres during the Syrian civil war
• List of mass executions and massacres in Yugoslavia during World War II

School-related shootings and attacks

• List of attacks related to primary schools, includes kindergarten attacks
• List of attacks related to secondary schools
• List of attacks related to post-secondary schools
• List of unsuccessful attacks related to schools
• List of rampage killers, includes incidents that involved only staff who work at the school
• List of school massacres by death toll
• List of school shootings in the United States (before 2000)
• List of school shootings in the United States (2000–present)
• List of school shootings in the United States by death toll

Disasters by place

• List of disasters in Antarctica by death toll
• List of disasters in Metro Manila by death toll
• List of disasters in New York City by death toll

Country

• List of disasters in Australia by death toll
• List of disasters in Bangladesh by death toll
• List of disasters in Canada by death toll
• List of disasters in Croatia by death toll
• List of disasters in Estonia by death toll
• List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll
• List of disasters in Japan by death toll
• List of disasters in Malta by death toll
• List of disasters in New Zealand by death toll
• List of disasters in Poland by death toll
• List of disasters in Romania by death toll
• List of disasters in Sweden by death toll
• List of disasters in the United States by death toll