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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 26 May 2015 03:51:13PM *  2 points [-]

5.4 million is the upper estimate - and my "5-10 million since WW2" is really "10 million per world population in 2015 of 7.2 billion", which is 10 million * (6.7/7.2) = 9.3 million in 2008 and 10 million * (5.97/7.2) = 8 million in 1998; both are above 5.4 million.

It's not stated in the paper what they mean by "victims", but they count 70 million or so victims of WW2, which has a death toll ranging from 50-80 million, so it seems that "victim" means "dead".