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"descriptionShort": "The estimated number of deaths in ongoing armed conflicts that year.", "descriptionProcessing": "Brecke's catalog provides data per conflict. In order to create an annual time series, we sum the deaths recorded in each year across all conflicts, distributing deaths evenly across the duration of conflicts lasting more than one year.\n\nThe catalog includes many conflicts for which Brecke was unable to find a deaths estimate. Given Brecke's stated definition of a conflict \u2013 political disagreements between organized groups, or between an organized group and civilians, that cause at least 32 deaths during a year \u2013 we assign such conflicts 32 deaths when creating the time series.", "licenses": "[{\"url\": \"https://dataportaal.pbl.nl/downloads/HYDE/HYDE3.2/readme_release_HYDE3.2.1.txt\", \"name\": \"CC BY 3.0\"}, {\"url\": \"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/\", \"name\": \"CC BY 3.0 IGO\"}]", "type": "float", "grapherConfigIdETL": "0191c16a-91ae-7378-a266-1f40aef870ff", "dataChecksum": "17662110575087094271", "metadataChecksum": "-4915465886188458337", "datasetName": "History of war (Brecke, 1999)", "datasetVersion": "2023-09-21", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "deaths per 100,000 people", "numDecimalPlaces": 1}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["War & Peace"]}, "descriptionKey": ["The data has been collated from a range of historical studies by the political scientist Peter Brecke.", "Brecke seeks to include only political disagreements between organized groups, or between an organized group and civilians, that cause at least 32 deaths during a year. This definition tries to exclude interpersonal and criminal violence.", "His data seeks to include combatant and civilian deaths, counting both direct deaths, due to fighting, and indirect deaths due to disease and starvation.", "The value of this data lies in giving us some insight into conflicts over the very long-run. But there are important limitations. The historical studies on which this data relies vary greatly in terms of how deaths are counted and the reliability of the estimates. Moreover, as Brecke makes clear, the data he has been able to collect provides an incomplete record \u2013 particularly for the distant past and outside of Europe."], "origins": [{"id": 316, "title": "Conflict Catalog", "description": "The Conflict Catalog is a dataset by Dr Peter Brecke. Brecke says that \"the Conflict Catalog within that Excel file is an unfinished product.\" and that considering the data that he has \"that is not yet in the Conflict Catalog, [he] can easily believe the catalog growing by 20% or more.\"\n\nThis dataset contains all violent conflicts at any location in the world since 1400 AD (Brecke 1999: 4). This year has been chosen because data earlier was even more flawed: \u201cThe 1400 AD temporal threshold corresponds to the one set by Luard (1987), lies between significant dates for Chinese (1366) and European and American (1492) populations, and demarcates a point before which the quality and extent of data about many parts of the world drop off precipitously (Brecke 1999: 4).\n\n\nYou can find more notes at https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.gatech.edu/dist/1/19/files/2018/09/Notes-about-Conflict-Catalog.pdf", "producer": "Brecke", "citationFull": "Brecke, P. (1999, October). Violent conflicts 1400 AD to the\npresent in different regions of the world. In 1999 Meeting of the Peace Science\nSociety.", "attribution": "Brecke - Conflict Catalog (1999)", "urlMain": "https://brecke.inta.gatech.edu/research/conflict/", "urlDownload": "https://brecke.inta.gatech.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/09/Conflict-Catalog-18-vars.xlsx", "dateAccessed": "2023-09-21", "datePublished": "1999-10-08", "license": {"url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}, {"id": 73, "title": "Population", "description": "Our World in Data builds and maintains a long-run dataset on population by country, region, and for the world, based on various sources.\n\nYou can find more information on these sources and how our time series is constructed on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources", "producer": "Various sources", "citationFull": "The long-run data on population is based on various sources, described on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources", "attribution": "Population based on various sources (2023)", "attributionShort": "Population", "urlMain": "https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources", "dateAccessed": "2023-03-31", "datePublished": "2023-03-31", "license": {"name": "CC BY 4.0"}}]}