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Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil: events and estimated deaths in May 2025

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP GEDData through

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UCDP recorded 22 events of organized violence in Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil in May 2025. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 24. The low estimate is 23 and the high estimate is 24. UCDP counts 0 of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for April 2025 was 4 events.

Among the 19 months with a report for Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil, May 2025 has the highest count of events. Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil holds 26 percent of the events that UCDP recorded in Brazil in May 2025.

The report of the country for this month: Brazil, May 2025.

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An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

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Events

The table lists the events with 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file of Brazil has each event.

No event of this month has 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file has each event.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 1. Rio Grande do Norte state: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of May 2025, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
GDE, PCC1314
PCC910
Sindicato do Crime2224

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

All months

Table 2. Monthly reports of Rio Grande do Norte state, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
March 20266P9PCandidate Events
February 202621P23PCandidate Events
December 202556GED
November 2025510GED
October 202522GED
September 2025713GED
August 2025910GED
July 202511GED
June 202511GED
May 20252224GED
April 202544GED
March 202511GED
February 20251313GED
January 20251919GED
December 20241619GED
November 202466GED
October 202489GED
September 202444GED
August 20241012GED

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Rio Grande do Norte state: all figures

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ConflictStats. Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil: events and estimated deaths in May 2025. https://conflictstats.com/country/brazil/rio-grande-do-norte-state/month/2025-05/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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