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Deaths in Organized Violence

37 years, 1989–2025 · 196 countries · 6 measures

Uppsala Conflict Data Program’s count of deaths in organized violence is the best estimate of everyone killed inside a country’s borders in state-based conflict, non-state conflict and one-sided violence against civilians. UCDP has coded it, event by event, every year since 1989.

This site holds every year from 1989 to 2025, read from UCDP’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Deaths in Organized Violence · the file

Newest
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2025
Held
37 years · 7,124 rows
Licence
CC BY 4.0

0137 years

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

1989bar height: countries covered, up to 1962025
Every year of Deaths in Organized Violence held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2025Newest196±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2024196±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2023196±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2022196±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2021196±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2020196±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2019196±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2018196±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2017196±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2016196±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2015196±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2014196±0September 5, 2026CSV
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YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2013196±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2012196±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2011196+1September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2010195±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2009195±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2008195+1September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2007194±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2006194+1September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2005193±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2004193±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2003193±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2002193+1September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2001192±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 2000192±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 1999192±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 1998192±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 1997192±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 1996192±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 1995192±0September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 1994192+1September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 1993191+3September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 1992188+3September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 1991185+15September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 1990170+1September 5, 2026CSV
Deaths in Organized Violence, 1989169—September 5, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: organized-violence-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

028 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Deaths in organized violenceis built fromState-based conflictNon-state conflictOne-sided violence

Every column in the newest file of Deaths in Organized Violence: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2025DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1960
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1960
Deaths in organized violencedeaths_totalHeadlineThe headline figure: Deaths in organized violence (people).Number · whole numbers0138 share it90,345Ukrainemiddle 0540
State-based conflictdeaths_state_basedPart of the headlineDeaths in armed conflicts where at least one side is a state's government, UCDP's best estimate, counted in people.Number · whole numbers0154 share it90,323Ukrainemiddle 0420
Non-state conflictdeaths_non_statePart of the headlineDeaths in fighting between organised armed groups where neither side is a state's government, UCDP's best estimate.Number · whole numbers0169 share it7,827Mexicomiddle 0270
One-sided violencedeaths_one_sidedPart of the headlineCivilians killed in deliberate attacks by a government or a formally organised armed group, UCDP's best estimate.Number · whole numbers0154 share it62,775Sudanmiddle 0370
Low estimatedeaths_lowMeasureUCDP's low estimate of the total death count, the lower end of its plausible range.Number · whole numbers0140 share it83,725Ukrainemiddle 0520
High estimatedeaths_highMeasureUCDP's high estimate of the total death count, the upper end of its plausible range.Number · whole numbers0136 share it137,336Ukrainemiddle 0560

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

03196 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Deaths in Organized Violence, by continent.
201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Africa545454545454545454545454
Americas353535353535353535353535
Asia484848484848484848484848
Europe454545454545454545454545
Oceania141414141414141414141414
All196196196196196196196196196196196196

The newest 12 of 37 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2011
    + South Sudan
  • 2008
    + Kosovo
  • 2006
    + Montenegro
  • 2002
    + Timor-Leste
  • 1994
    + Palau
  • 1993
    + Czechia+ Eritrea+ Slovakia
  • 1992
    + Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Croatia+ Slovenia
  • 1991
    + Armenia+ Azerbaijan+ Belarus+ Estonia+ Georgia+ Kazakhstan+ Kyrgyzstan+ Lithuania+ Latvia+ Moldova+ North Macedonia+ Tajikistan+ Turkmenistan+ Ukraine+ Uzbekistan

Not in this dataset · 29 places this site covers

UCDP gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAnguillaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamHong KongIsle of ManMacauMontserratNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalestinePuerto RicoSaint MartinSint MaartenSomalilandTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited States Virgin Islands

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)

    ucdp.uu.se

  2. 2 · Their file

    Deaths in Organized Violence 2025

    organizedviolencecy-261-csv.zip

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 5, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    37 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as organized-violence-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/organized-violence

Precision

The headline is stored in whole numbers, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From UCDP’s Organized Violence country-year dataset. UCDP’s country list carries Israel and no Palestine, so deaths in the territories are counted under Israel — the publisher’s coding decision, and essential context for reading that figure.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 5, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), Deaths in Organized Violence, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). Deaths in Organized Violence, 1989–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/organized-violence

The publisher’s own citation: Uppsala Conflict Data Program. UCDP Country-Year Dataset on Organized Violence within Country Borders, version 26.1. Uppsala: Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Deaths in Organized Violence: questions and answers

What is the Deaths in Organized Violence?

Uppsala Conflict Data Program’s count of deaths in organized violence is the best estimate of everyone killed inside a country’s borders in state-based conflict, non-state conflict and one-sided violence against civilians. UCDP has coded it, event by event, every year since 1989.

Which years of the Deaths in Organized Violence can I download?

All 37, from 1989 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does UCDP rank countries on it?

No. UCDP publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to UCDP. The licence text is linked on this page.

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