{"id": 1075300, "name": "Deaths in ongoing conflicts (best estimate) - Conflict type: intrastate (non-internationalized)", "unit": "deaths", "createdAt": "2025-06-16T17:47:47.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-08-06T11:46:25.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1946-2024", "datasetId": 7119, "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "number_deaths_ongoing_conflicts__conflict_type_intrastate__non_internationalized", "catalogPath": "grapher/war/2025-06-16/ucdp_prio/ucdp_prio#number_deaths_ongoing_conflicts__conflict_type_intrastate__non_internationalized", "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1946}, {"id": 1947}, {"id": 1948}, {"id": 1949}, {"id": 1950}, {"id": 1951}, {"id": 1952}, {"id": 1953}, {"id": 1954}, {"id": 1955}, {"id": 1956}, {"id": 1957}, {"id": 1958}, {"id": 1959}, {"id": 1960}, {"id": 1961}, {"id": 1962}, {"id": 1963}, {"id": 1964}, {"id": 1965}, {"id": 1966}, {"id": 1967}, {"id": 1968}, {"id": 1969}, {"id": 1970}, {"id": 1971}, {"id": 1972}, {"id": 1973}, {"id": 1974}, {"id": 1975}, {"id": 1976}, {"id": 1977}, {"id": 1978}, {"id": 1979}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1984}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1988}, {"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}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 273, "name": "Africa", "code": null}, {"id": 290, "name": "Americas", "code": null}, {"id": 29325, "name": "Asia and Oceania", "code": null}, {"id": 276, "name": "Europe", "code": null}, {"id": 25487, "name": "Middle East", "code": null}, {"id": 355, "name": "World", "code": "OWID_WRL"}]}}, "descriptionShort": "The best estimate of the number of deaths of combatants and civilians due to fighting in non-internationalized intrastate conflicts that were ongoing that year.", "descriptionProcessing": "Data prior to 1989 is sourced from PRIO. Data since 1989 is sourced from UCDP.\n\nFor conflict years without a best deaths estimate in the PRIO data, we conservatively coded the low estimate.", "type": "int", "grapherConfigIdETL": "019779da-bd62-79f3-a297-2b5ffdd8e8d9", "dataChecksum": "1329354097711401480", "metadataChecksum": "5138302269989209247", "datasetName": "UCDP+PRIO, History of war", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2025-06-16", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "deaths", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["War & Peace"]}, "descriptionKey": ["A domestic civil conflict is defined by the [Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)](https://ucdp.uu.se/) and the [Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)](https://www.prio.org/data/1) as a conflict between a state and a non-state armed group that causes at least 25 deaths during a year, and no foreign state is involved in a supporting role. A non-state armed group can be a rebel group, criminal organization, or ethnic group. This includes combatant and civilian deaths due to fighting.", "[UCDP](https://www.uu.se/en/department/peace-and-conflict-research/research/ucdp/ucdp-methodology) and [PRIO](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Monitoring-Trends-in-Global-Combat%3A-A-New-Dataset-Lacina-Gleditsch/0c4ff27fff986bc30112ac59ad6afbd7b719ad17?p2df) identify conflict deaths based on news reports, other contemporary sources, and academic research.", "PRIO's conflict-level data cannot be neatly mapped to individual countries, which is why we only present aggregated data for the world and world regions.", "We show here the \"best\" death estimates as identified by UCDP and PRIO. 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). These events are sufficiently fine-grained to be geo-coded down to the level of individual villages, with temporal durations disaggregated to single, individual days.\n\nYou can find more notes at https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/ged/ged251.pdf", "producer": "Uppsala Conflict Data Program", "citationFull": "Davies, S., Pettersson, T., Sollenberg, M., & \u00d6berg, M. (2025). Organized violence 1989\u20132024, and the challenges of identifying civilian victims. Journal of Peace Research, 62(4).\n\nSundberg, Ralph and Erik Melander (2013) Introducing the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset. Journal of Peace Research 50(4).", "attributionShort": "UCDP", "versionProducer": "v25.1", "urlMain": "https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/index.html#ged_global", "urlDownload": "https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/ged/ged251-csv.zip", "dateAccessed": "2025-06-13", "datePublished": "2025", "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. Online at www.geoboundaries.org.", "versionProducer": "6.0.0", "urlMain": "https://www.geoboundaries.org/globalDownloads.html", "urlDownload": "https://github.com/wmgeolab/geoBoundaries/raw/main/releaseData/CGAZ/geoBoundariesCGAZ_ADM0.zip", "dateAccessed": "2025-06-26", "datePublished": "2023-09-14", "license": {"url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}, {"id": 138, "title": "Battle deaths", "description": "This project has generated a dataset on battle deaths (number of soldiers and civilians killed in combat) in state-based armed conflicts for the period 1946-2008.\n\nThe dataset is compatible with the UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset for the period 1946\u20132008.\n\nA longer time series (1900-1997) compatible with the [Correlates of War database](http://www.correlatesofwar.org/data-sets) was included in the first version (v1) of the Battle Deaths Dataset, available from the downloads section.\n\nFor academic exchanges on the PRIO data, see the following articles and rebuttals:\n\n\n- [Lacina & Gleditsch (2005) 'Monitoring trends in global combat: A new dataset of battle deaths'](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Monitoring-Trends-in-Global-Combat%3A-A-New-Dataset-Lacina-Gleditsch/0c4ff27fff986bc30112ac59ad6afbd7b719ad17?p2df).\n- [Obermeier et al. (2008) 'Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia'](https://www.jstor.org/stable/20510162)\n- [Spagat et al. (2009) 'Estimating war deaths: An arena of contestation'](https://www.jstor.org/stable/20684623?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents).\n- [Gohdes & Price (2012) 'First things first: Assessing data quality before model\nquality'](https://www.jstor.org/stable/24545604?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents).\n- [Lacina & Gleditsch (2012) 'The waning of war is real: A response to Gohdes and\nPrice'](https://www.jstor.org/stable/24545604?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents)\n\n\nThere are no plans to update the PRIO battle deaths dataset beyond 2008. The Uppsala\nConflict Data Program (UCDP) maintains a similar dataset from 1989, which is updated\nannually. For this dataset in different formats,\nas well as a codebook, go to the [UCDP Battle-Related Deaths Dataset](https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/).\n\nWhile the definitions are very similar, the coding practices may differ somewhat,\nand we generally recommend users of the two datasets to point out that these are\ntwo different, although closely related, datasets.", "producer": "Peace Research Institute Oslo", "citationFull": "Bethany Lacina and Nils Petter Gleditsch, 2005. \"Monitoring Trends in Global Combat: A New Dataset of Battle Deaths.\" European Journal of Population: 21(2\u20133): 145\u2013166. The data are available at http://www.prio.no/CSCW/Datasets/Armed-Conflict/Battle-Deaths/", "attributionShort": "PRIO", "versionProducer": "v3.1", "urlMain": "https://www.prio.org/data/1", "urlDownload": "https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/d21ef702-a546-45a8-b3c9-5b520dcc1239/PRIO%20Battle%20Deaths%20Dataset%2031.xls?inline=true", "dateAccessed": "2023-09-21", "datePublished": "2017-01-30", "license": {"url": "https://cdn.cloud.prio.org/files/91648bba-8885-40ce-8a78-fae75c850c55/PRIO%20Battle%20Deaths%20Dataset%2030%20Documentation.pdf?inline=true", "name": "PRIO terms"}}]}