The final accounting of the cost in blood for the period 1946-1949 can only be approximated due to the difficulty of accurately determining, on one hand, the losses of the paramilitary forces from the government side and on the other hand, the losses of the Democratic Army, particularly during times of defeat.

However, from what is known and accessible, we can make some initial estimates. The total losses of the National Army reached 44,000 officers and soldiers (14,000 dead). In the Democratic Army, the dead, according to estimates, amounted to approximately 25,000.

As for the casualties among the paramilitary mechanisms and civilians, the differences in estimates are significant, with the common characteristic that they refer to real slaughter. In comparison, the Asia Minor Campaign (1919-1922) had cost the Greek army 37,000 dead or missing. The "milder" war of 1940-1941 (the Greco-Italian and Greco-German) cost 15,000 dead and missing, while the Balkan Wars had "only" 8,000 dead.

If we consider that in the case of the civil war, the victims from both sides come from the same Greek society, then we are clearly facing the largest military bloodshed the country has experienced since its independence in 1830.

It is evident that we are confronted with an extremely fierce military confrontation. A war of an absolute character, that is, one that does not involve only the armies and the armed individuals but the whole society. More than one million individuals, civilians, were displaced and turned into refugees during this war. What more could happen in a war?