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Depends on the size of the graveyard, bigger it is more bodies it holds.

That's the obvious answer but it isn't as simple as that. Military graveyards are different to graveyards for the likes of us. In military graveyards it is one body per grave only and each grave has a specific area of land to occupy as defined by the various countries and even by rank so a general would get a bigger plot than a sergeant for example. Most countries maintain one or two specifc graveyards for military personnel, some more and some by military type so there are army, navy and air force graveyards. Other military graveyards are more like rememberance areas where war dead are simply buried, one to a plot but the graveyards is of a fixed size as the number of dead is not going to change, examples wouold include the Dunkirk graveyard(s) for British, American and Canadia soldiers.

For us non military people who are going to die, and assuming we will be buried and not cremated, we can expect to spend about 10 years, maybe more or less than that, actually in the ground before being disinterred (dug up) and the plot reused. Our bones (and usually only the largest) will then be either kept in a tomb or crypt usually located on or near the graveyard or they may be reinterred in a communal grave just for the bones.

Unless you make an investment in a plot (buy the land outright), are fortunate enough(?) to have a family plot or are very famous/rich your bones will not rest forever. It is also not uncommon for a grave to have multiple occupancy, that is, coffins being laid on top of each other to save space. In short, for a communal graveyard especially one that is relatively old, it is very difficult to say with any certainty exactly how many people have been buried there.

Other graveyards are simply declared as such. For example, sites of massacres such as during the genocides of WWII, the Serbian/Croate war and in Rhwanda are simply marked out areas of where evidence for it happened and the actual number of bodies is a guesstimate. Othe war graves include the wrecks of ships sunk during battle as well as downed aircraft and other materials that probably contains/contained bodies.

For info on graveyards generally see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemetery this was very interesting, much more so than I thought at first especially look at the links.

For war graves info see: http://www.cwgc.org/ commonwealth war graves

For other stuff see: http://www.interment.net/ has cemetary records, numbes and info worldwide