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Deaths in armed conflicts by region

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What you should know about this indicator

An armed conflict is a disagreement between organized groups, or between one organized group and civilians, that causes at least 25 deaths during a year. This includes combatant and civilian deaths due to fighting.

Deaths in armed conflicts by region
The best estimate of the number of deaths of combatants and civilians due to fighting in interstate, intrastate, extrasystemic, non-state conflicts, and one-sided violence that were ongoing that year.
Source
Uppsala Conflict Data Program (2023) – processed by Our World in Data
Last updated
September 21, 2023
Date range
1989–2022
Unit
deaths

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Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

This dataset is UCDP's most disaggregated dataset, covering individual events of organized violence (phenomena of lethal violence occurring at a given time and place). These events are sufficiently fine-grained to be geo-coded down to the level of individual villages, with temporal durations disaggregated to single, individual days.

You can find more notes at https://web.archive.org/web/20230618115833/https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/ged/ged231.pdf

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Citation
This is the citation of the original data obtained from the source, prior to any processing or adaptation by Our World in Data. To cite data downloaded from this page, please use the suggested citation given in Reuse This Work below.
Davies, Shawn, Therese Pettersson & Magnus Öberg (2023). Organized violence 1989-2022 and the return of conflicts between states?. Journal of Peace Research 60(4).
Sundberg, Ralph, and Erik Melander, 2013, “Introducing the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset”, Journal of Peace Research, vol.50, no.4, 523-532

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“Data Page: Deaths in armed conflicts by region”, part of the following publication: Bastian Herre, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Max Roser, Joe Hasell and Bobbie Macdonald (2024) - “War and Peace”. Data adapted from Uppsala Conflict Data Program. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-in-armed-conflicts-by-region [online resource]
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Uppsala Conflict Data Program (2023) – processed by Our World in Data

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Uppsala Conflict Data Program (2023) – processed by Our World in Data. “Deaths in armed conflicts by region” [dataset]. Uppsala Conflict Data Program, “Georeferenced Event Dataset v23.1” [original data]. Retrieved July 26, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-in-armed-conflicts-by-region