Countries where armed conflicts took place
What you should know about this indicator
- '1' indicates that there was a conflict event in the given country. '0' indicates that there was no conflict event in the given country.
- 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.
Sources and processing
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Notes on our processing step for this indicator
UCDP provides geographical coordinates of each conflict event. We have mapped these coordinates to countries by means of the Natural Earth dataset.
In some instances, the event's coordinates fall within the borders of a country. Other times, the event's coordinates fall outside the borders of a country. In the latter case, we have mapped the event to the country that is closest to the event's coordinates.
Conflict event with id "53238" and relid "PAK-2003-1-345-88" was assigned to "Siachen Glacier" by Natural Earth. We have mapped it to "Pakistan" following the text in the where_description field from the Natural Earth data, which refers to "Giang sector in Siachen, Pakistani Kashmir".
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Citations
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“Data Page: Countries where armed conflicts took place”, part of the following publication: Bastian Herre, Lucas Rodés-Guirao and Max Roser (2024) - “War and Peace”. Data adapted from Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Natural Earth. Retrieved from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/locations-of-ongoing-armed-conflicts [online resource]How to cite this data
In-line citationIf you have limited space (e.g. in data visualizations), you can use this abbreviated in-line citation:
Uppsala Conflict Data Program (2024); Natural Earth (2022) – processed by Our World in DataFull citation
Uppsala Conflict Data Program (2024); Natural Earth (2022) – processed by Our World in Data. “Countries where armed conflicts took place” [dataset]. Uppsala Conflict Data Program, “Georeferenced Event Dataset v24.1”; Natural Earth, “Natural Earth - Large scale data (1:10m Cultural Vectors) 5.1.1” [original data]. Retrieved December 15, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/locations-of-ongoing-armed-conflicts