How many indigenous people are estimated to have died directly or indirectly due to the Colonization of their lands (world wide)?

by ClearlySick
davepx

There's no one reliable figure. Estimates for the pre-Contact population of the Americas alone range from 15 million to 120 million: by 1650 fewer than 10 million remained. So the population loss there (overwhelmingly the result of unfamiliar diseases) could be a few million (probably too low) or 100 million (probably too high). Similar uncertainties plague estimates of Australia's Aboriginal population before white settlement: 300,000 or a million? By the 1920s there were fewer than 75,000. Then there's the question of populations displaced or assimilated earlier of whose fate we know still less: where did Bronze Age European peoples go? And excess deaths don't necessarily end with depopulation: even a recovering population may live in circumstances that shorten life; conversely it may later share to some extent in a wider improvement in mortality.

The best answer I can give is millions, possibly tens of millions. There is no simple answer, and any one figure should be questioned.