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Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 2005

2005, as V-Dem Institute’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 2005 covers 175 countries. Somalia is highest, at 3.230; Romania is lowest, at -3.427. The middle country reads -0.743. Against 2004, 43 values changed (22 up, 21 down), the same countries are covered.

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Political Violence by Non-State Actors · Data for 2005

HighestSomalia

3.230

LowestRomania

-3.427

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, 2005, 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 175 countries · select a heading to sort

Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 2005: every country, as published by V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg.
derived
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa3.230
2ColombiaCOLSouth America2.652
3NepalNPLSouthern Asia2.472
4IraqIRQWestern Asia2.383
5DR CongoCODMiddle Africa2.222
6BurundiBDIEastern Africa2.209
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa2.203
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia2.183
9AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia2.119
10Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia2.116
11ChadTCDMiddle Africa2.089
12ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa1.687
13HaitiHTICaribbean1.609
=14Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa1.457
=14PakistanPAKSouthern Asia1.457
16SyriaSYRWestern Asia1.336
17ComorosCOMEastern Africa1.261
18MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia1.213
19Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa1.198
20IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia1.173
21BahrainBHRWestern Asia1.154
22SudanSDNNorthern Africa1.089
23IsraelISRWestern Asia1.076
24LebanonLBNWestern Asia1.005
25ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia0.965

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Somalia3.230
  2. 2Colombia2.652
  3. 3Nepal2.472
  4. 4Iraq2.383
  5. 5DR Congo2.222

Lowest

  1. 175Romania-3.427
  2. 174United Arab Emirates-3.158
  3. 173Singapore-3.049
  4. 172Luxembourg-3.006
  5. 171Namibia-2.895

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads -0.743. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 43values changed, of 175 in both
  • 22 · 21rose · fell
  • 132unchanged

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 2005.

  • 170 distinct values among 175

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 3 decimals. 2 countries share 1.457. 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 175 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 (2005). Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/political-violence/2005

0636 held

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07Questions

Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest political violence by non-state actors in Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 2005?

Somalia, at 3.230, of the 175 countries in the file.

What year does Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 2005 cover?

175.

Where can I download Political Violence by Non-State Actors, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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