{"id": 1012633, "name": "Deaths in ongoing conflicts (best estimate) - Conflict type: all", "unit": "deaths", "createdAt": "2025-02-21T18:32:04.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-02-18T10:52:16.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1989-2025", "datasetId": 6955, "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "number_deaths_ongoing_conflicts__conflict_type_all", "catalogPath": "grapher/war/latest/ucdp_preview/ucdp_preview#number_deaths_ongoing_conflicts__conflict_type_all", "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1989}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 2024}, {"id": 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"code": "GUY"}, {"id": 145, "name": "Haiti", "code": "HTI"}, {"id": 139, "name": "Honduras", "code": "HND"}, {"id": 138, "name": "Hungary", "code": "HUN"}, {"id": 207, "name": "Iceland", "code": "ISL"}, {"id": 137, "name": "India", "code": "IND"}, {"id": 136, "name": "Indonesia", "code": "IDN"}, {"id": 135, "name": "Iran", "code": "IRN"}, {"id": 134, "name": "Iraq", "code": "IRQ"}, {"id": 2, "name": "Ireland", "code": "IRL"}, {"id": 133, "name": "Israel", "code": "ISR"}, {"id": 8, "name": "Italy", "code": "ITA"}, {"id": 132, "name": "Jamaica", "code": "JAM"}, {"id": 14, "name": "Japan", "code": "JPN"}, {"id": 130, "name": "Jordan", "code": "JOR"}, {"id": 131, "name": "Kazakhstan", "code": "KAZ"}, {"id": 129, "name": "Kenya", "code": "KEN"}, {"id": 204, "name": "Kiribati", "code": "KIR"}, {"id": 379, "name": "Kosovo", "code": "OWID_KOS"}, {"id": 208, "name": "Kuwait", "code": "KWT"}, {"id": 126, "name": "Kyrgyzstan", "code": "KGZ"}, {"id": 125, "name": "Laos", "code": "LAO"}, {"id": 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"code": "SRB"}, {"id": 233, "name": "Seychelles", "code": "SYC"}, {"id": 87, "name": "Sierra Leone", "code": "SLE"}, {"id": 86, "name": "Singapore", "code": "SGP"}, {"id": 85, "name": "Slovakia", "code": "SVK"}, {"id": 83, "name": "Slovenia", "code": "SVN"}, {"id": 195, "name": "Solomon Islands", "code": "SLB"}, {"id": 82, "name": "Somalia", "code": "SOM"}, {"id": 81, "name": "South Africa", "code": "ZAF"}, {"id": 127, "name": "South Korea", "code": "KOR"}, {"id": 394, "name": "South Ossetia", "code": "OWID_SOS"}, {"id": 258, "name": "South Sudan", "code": "SSD"}, {"id": 9, "name": "Spain", "code": "ESP"}, {"id": 141, "name": "Sri Lanka", "code": "LKA"}, {"id": 79, "name": "Sudan", "code": "SDN"}, {"id": 234, "name": "Suriname", "code": "SUR"}, {"id": 10, "name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 7, "name": "Switzerland", "code": "CHE"}, {"id": 77, "name": "Syria", "code": "SYR"}, {"id": 198, "name": "Taiwan", "code": "TWN"}, {"id": 76, "name": "Tajikistan", "code": "TJK"}, {"id": 64, "name": "Tanzania", "code": "TZA"}, {"id": 75, "name": "Thailand", "code": "THA"}, {"id": 74, "name": "Togo", "code": "TGO"}, {"id": 235, "name": "Tonga", "code": "TON"}, {"id": 73, "name": "Trinidad and Tobago", "code": "TTO"}, {"id": 71, "name": "Tunisia", "code": "TUN"}, {"id": 70, "name": "Turkey", "code": "TUR"}, {"id": 69, "name": "Turkmenistan", "code": "TKM"}, {"id": 237, "name": "Tuvalu", "code": "TUV"}, {"id": 68, "name": "Uganda", "code": "UGA"}, {"id": 67, "name": "Ukraine", "code": "UKR"}, {"id": 72, "name": "United Arab Emirates", "code": "ARE"}, {"id": 1, "name": "United Kingdom", "code": "GBR"}, {"id": 13, "name": "United States", "code": "USA"}, {"id": 63, "name": "Uruguay", "code": "URY"}, {"id": 62, "name": "Uzbekistan", "code": "UZB"}, {"id": 221, "name": "Vanuatu", "code": "VUT"}, {"id": 238, "name": "Venezuela", "code": "VEN"}, {"id": 84, "name": "Vietnam", "code": "VNM"}, {"id": 185, "name": "West Germany", "code": "OWID_GFR"}, {"id": 248, "name": "Western Sahara", "code": "ESH"}, {"id": 355, "name": "World", "code": "OWID_WRL"}, {"id": 61, "name": "Yemen", "code": "YEM"}, {"id": 382, "name": "Yemen People's Republic", "code": "OWID_YPR"}, {"id": 271, "name": "Yugoslavia", "code": "OWID_YGS"}, {"id": 60, "name": "Zambia", "code": "ZMB"}, {"id": 80, "name": "Zimbabwe", "code": "ZWE"}]}}, "descriptionShort": "The best estimate of the number of deaths of combatants and civilians due to fighting in interstate, intrastate, extrasystemic, non-state conflicts, and one-sided violence that were ongoing that year.", "descriptionProcessing": "UCDP provides geographical coordinates of each conflict event. We have mapped these coordinates to countries by means of the geoBoundaries dataset.\n\nIn 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.\n\nConflict event with id \"53238\" and relid \"PAK-2003-1-345-88\" was assigned to \"Siachen-Saltoro\" by geoBoundaries. We have mapped it to \"Pakistan\" following the text in the `where_description` field from the UCDP data, which refers to \"Giang sector in Siachen, Pakistani Kashmir\".", "type": "int", "grapherConfigIdETL": "019529c7-f3bc-7351-803b-f4bdd194a190", "dataChecksum": "1287276304429106565", "metadataChecksum": "7488640967214219566", "datasetName": "UCDP, History of war (preview)", "datasetVersion": "latest", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "deaths", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["War & Peace"]}, "descriptionKey": ["An armed conflict is defined by the [Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)](https://ucdp.uu.se/) as 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.", "This includes [interstate conflicts](#dod:interstate-ucdp), [civil conflicts](#dod:intrastate-ucdp), [non-state conflicts](#dod:nonstate-ucdp), [violence against civilians](#dod:onesided-ucdp), and [colonial conflicts](#dod:extrasystemic-ucdp).", "UCDP identifies conflict deaths [based on news reports, other contemporary sources, and academic research](https://www.uu.se/en/department/peace-and-conflict-research/research/ucdp/ucdp-methodology).", "UCDP's data for 2025 is preliminary. This means the number of deaths may be too low because more information becomes available later, or they may be too high because some events are later found not to be part of an armed conflict. We still show this data to provide more up-to-date information, but figures on this chart may change in the future if UCDP revises its estimates.", "We use UCDP's quarterly [Candidate Events Datasets](https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/) for the preliminary data. We add data for the first quarter of the current year in May, for the second quarter in August, for the third quarter in November, and for the fourth quarter in February.", "We show here the \"best\" death estimates as identified by UCDP. They also report high and low estimates."], "origins": [{"id": 5190, "title": "Georeferenced Event Dataset", "description": "This dataset is UCDP's most disaggregated dataset, covering individual events of organized violence (phenomena of lethal violence occurring at a given time and place). 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See [codebook](https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/candidateged/ucdp-candidate-codebook1.4.pdf) for similarities and differences between the two products, as well as other relevant notes.", "producer": "Uppsala Conflict Data Program", "citationFull": "Hegre, H\u00e5vard, Mihai Croicu, Kristine Eck, and Stina H\u00f6gbladh, July 2020. \"Introducing the UCDP Candidate Events Dataset\", Research & Politics doi:10.1177/2053168020935257\n\nH\u00f6gbladh Stina, 2025, \"UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, v.1.4\", Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University.", "attributionShort": "UCDP", "versionProducer": "v25.01.25.12", "urlMain": "https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/index.html#candidate", "urlDownload": "https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/candidateged/GEDEvent_v25_01_25_12.csv", "dateAccessed": "2026-02-16", "datePublished": "2026-01-20", "license": {"url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}, {"id": 6708, "title": "geoBoundaries - Comprehensive Global Administrative Zones (CGAZ)", "description": "Built by the community and William & Mary geoLab, the geoBoundaries Global Database of Political Administrative Boundaries Database is an online, open license (CC BY 4.0 / ODbL) resource of information on administrative boundaries (i.e., state, county) for every country in the world. Since 2016, they have tracked approximately 1 million boundaries within over 200 entities, including all UN member states.", "producer": "geoBoundaries", "citationFull": "Runfola, Daniel, Community Contributors, and [v4.0: Lindsey Rogers, Joshua Habib, Sidonie Horn, Sean Murphy, Dorian Miller, Hadley Day, Lydia Troup, Dominic Fornatora, Natalie Spage, Kristina Pupkiewicz, Michael Roth, Carolina Rivera, Charlie Altman, Isabel Schruer, Tara McLaughlin, Russ Biddle, Renee Ritchey, Emily Topness, James Turner, Sam Updike, Helena Buckman, Neel Simpson, Jason Lin], [v2.0: Austin Anderson, Heather Baier, Matt Crittenden, Elizabeth Dowker, Sydney Fuhrig, Seth Goodman, Grace Grimsley, Rachel Layko, Graham Melville, Maddy Mulder, Rachel Oberman, Joshua Panganiban, Andrew Peck, Leigh Seitz, Sylvia Shea, Hannah Slevin, Rebecca Yougerman, Lauren Hobbs]. \"geoBoundaries: A global database of political administrative boundaries.\" Plos one 15, no. 4 (2020): e0231866. 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