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Bago region, Myanmar: events and estimated deaths in January 2026

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP Candidate Events, preliminaryData through

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UCDP recorded 12 eventsP of organized violence in Bago region, Myanmar in January 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 18P. UCDP counts 16P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for December 2025 was 6 events.

The count for January 2025 was 5 events. The change from January 2025 to January 2026 is up 140 percentP. Among the 25 months with a report for Bago region, Myanmar, January 2026 has the highest count of events. Bago region, Myanmar holds 24 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Myanmar in January 2026. In January 2025, the share was 7 percent.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

The report of the country for this month: Myanmar, January 2026.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

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 .

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

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Events

The table lists the events with 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file of Myanmar 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. Bago region: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of January 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Myanmar (Burma)12P18P
KNU9P14P
NUG3P4P

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.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

All months

Table 2. Monthly reports of Bago region, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 20262P8PCandidate Events
August 20264P8PCandidate Events
July 20265P13PCandidate Events
June 20264P10PCandidate Events
May 20266P15PCandidate Events
April 20266P8PCandidate Events
March 202610P87PCandidate Events
February 20268P14PCandidate Events
January 202612P18PCandidate Events
December 2025610GED
November 202544GED
October 202554GED
September 20251012GED
August 202559GED
July 202548GED
June 20251214GED
May 20251033GED
April 2025911GED
March 202535GED
February 2025510GED
January 202558GED
December 2024918GED
November 202446GED
October 2024715GED
August 2024510GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 30 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.

Bago region: all figures

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ConflictStats. Bago region, Myanmar: events and estimated deaths in January 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/myanmar/bago-region/month/2026-01/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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