Countries with 1,000+ conflict deaths rose from 9 to 15

Claim types Estimate

Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Uppsala University, Organized Violence Country-Year Dataset version 26.1: deaths in state-based armed conflict (conflicts where at least one side is a government), best estimate, by the country where the deaths occurred; read from the UCDP download via the progrss vault (vault rule GUIDELINES §4.11). UCDP best estimates are coded from reports and are Estimates; UCDP also publishes low and high estimates. Set: all 195 countries in the dataset, both years. The 1,000-death line is applied to each country's yearly total across all its state-based conflicts; UCDP's own 'war' threshold of 1,000 battle-related deaths applies to a single conflict, so this count is not a count of wars. UCDP records deaths by location using its own country list; the dataset has no separate Palestine entry, and deaths in Gaza and the West Bank are counted in the Israel row. Deaths in non-state conflict and one-sided violence against civilians are not included. The chart shows where deaths were recorded, not which side caused them. Map colour: yellow = the 9 countries newly at 1,000+ in 2025; hover shows 2025 deaths. Counts are progrss calculations from UCDP data. Licence: UCDP data CC BY 4.0, credit UCDP.