Countries by events in organized violence
What the table counts
UCDP define an event as: 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 collects data on state-based armed conflict, non-state conflict, and one-sided violence. The categories are mutually exclusive and can be aggregated as ‘organized violence’.
- A count holds the events that UCDP finds in its sources. It does not measure danger, the size of a conflict or the conduct of a government.
- A count depends on the sources that UCDP can reach. It also depends on the limit of 25 deaths in a year that UCDP uses for a conflict.
- The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them. A figure carries the mark P only when it counts at least one event from Candidate Events.
UCDP attempts to distinguish and not include unreasonable claims in the high estimate of fatalities, and tends to be highly conservative when counting fatalities
The table
A country is in the table when it has a page: 10 or more events in the last 12 months. Select a column head to sort the rows.
| Country | Events | Estimated deaths | Deaths of civilians |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 174P | 935P | 608P |
| Argentina | 17P | 21P | 21P |
| Bangladesh | 68P | 80P | 9P |
| Belize | 11P | 15P | 0P |
| Benin | 16P | 45P | 9P |
| Brazil | 335P | 371P | 58P |
| Burkina Faso | 653P | 2,740P | 259P |
| Burundi | 35P | 38P | 36P |
| Cameroon | 217P | 470P | 212P |
| Central African Republic | 56P | 287P | 114P |
| Chad | 26P | 237P | 50P |
| Colombia | 1,068P | 1,637P | 324P |
| Costa Rica | 49 | 47 | 1 |
| Dominican Republic | 12P | 11P | 5P |
| DR Congo | 759P | 3,918P | 2,854P |
| Ecuador | 136P | 433P | 29P |
| Ethiopia | 882P | 5,315P | 651P |
| Ghana | 24P | 77P | 4P |
| Guatemala | 32P | 50P | 19P |
| Haiti | 136P | 945P | 487P |
| India | 158P | 364P | 73P |
| Indonesia | 74P | 156P | 71P |
| Iran | 185P | 23,650P | 7,196P |
| Iraq | 76P | 238P | 17P |
| Israel and Palestine | 1,265P | 4,023P | 779P |
| Kenya | 47P | 69P | 17P |
| Lebanon | 598P | 4,578P | 312P |
| Libya | 11P | 31P | 4P |
| Mali | 747P | 1,941P | 603P |
| Mexico | 2,406P | 3,253P | 151P |
| Mozambique | 116P | 438P | 198P |
| Myanmar | 577P | 1,922P | 1,359P |
| Niger | 152P | 1,255P | 423P |
| Nigeria | 1,404P | 7,777P | 2,141P |
| Pakistan | 1,368P | 4,692P | 466P |
| Papua New Guinea | 10P | 34P | 13P |
| Philippines | 70P | 171P | 29P |
| Russia | 282P | 547P | 197P |
| Somalia | 421P | 3,762P | 151P |
| South Africa | 78P | 147P | 49P |
| South Sudan | 59P | 799P | 259P |
| Sudan | 669P | 67,494P | 63,488P |
| Syria | 441P | 674P | 408P |
| Tanzania | 55P | 1,007P | 1,007P |
| Thailand | 52P | 76P | 14P |
| Ukraine | 5,032P | 85,085P | 2,910P |
| United Arab Emirates | 10P | 12P | 8P |
| Venezuela | 25P | 119P | 17P |
| Yemen | 474P | 2,492P | 323P |
P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.
Other tables
- Countries by deaths in organized violence
- Countries by civilian deaths in organized violence
- Countries by events per million inhabitants
- Countries by deaths per million inhabitants
- Countries where the count of events rose by 20 percent or more
- Countries where the count of events fell by 20 percent or more
Cite this page
ConflictStats. Countries by events in organized violence. https://conflictstats.com/tables/events/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.8. Data through .
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