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Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 1994

1994, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 1994 covers 173 countries. Colombia is highest, at 3.295; United Arab Emirates is lowest, at -3.158. The middle country reads -0.534. Against 1993, 35 values changed (12 up, 23 down), the same countries are covered.

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Political Violence by Non-State Actors · Data for 1994

HighestColombia

3.295

LowestUnited Arab Emirates

-3.158

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 1994, as published. V-Dem Institute ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 173 countries · select a heading to sort

Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 1994: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1ColombiaCOLSouth America3.295
2SomaliaSOMEastern Africa3.230
3Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe3.218
4AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa3.138
5AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia3.110
6LiberiaLBRWestern Africa2.949
7BurundiBDIEastern Africa2.872
8GuatemalaGTMCentral America2.773
9TürkiyeTURWestern Asia2.564
10AngolaAGOMiddle Africa2.466
11Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa2.326
12TajikistanTJKCentral Asia2.269
13Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia2.258
14ChadTCDMiddle Africa2.089
15Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia1.896
16IraqIRQWestern Asia1.775
17BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia1.762
18DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa1.690
19DR CongoCODMiddle Africa1.688
20HaitiHTICaribbean1.623
21NepalNPLSouthern Asia1.564
22PeruPERSouth America1.518
23SomalilandXSLEastern Africa1.381
24Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa1.362
25TogoTGOWestern Africa1.300

02In 1994

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Colombia3.295
  2. 2Somalia3.230
  3. 3Bosnia and Herzegovina3.218
  4. 4Algeria3.138
  5. 5Afghanistan3.110

Lowest

  1. 173United Arab Emirates-3.158
  2. 172Singapore-3.049
  3. 171Luxembourg-3.006
  4. 170Romania-2.958
  5. 169Belarus-2.938

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads -0.534. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031993 → 1994

Since 1993

What changed between 1993 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 35values changed, of 173 in both
  • 12 · 23rose · fell
  • 138unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored
  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1994.

  • 169 distinct values among 173

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 0.951. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    V-Dem Institute publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 173 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg (1994). Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 1994 [data set], describing 1994. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/political-violence/1994

0636 held

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07Questions

Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 1994: questions and answers

Which country has the highest political violence by non-state actors in Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 1994?

Colombia, at 3.295, of the 173 countries in the file.

What year does Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 1994 describe?

1994.

How many countries does Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 1994 cover?

173.

Where can I download Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 1994?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 1994 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 2025.

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