Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 2025

Deaths in State-Based Armed Conflict, 2025

Figures for 2025, as UCDP published them · stored as published, never rewritten

How many people were killed inside each country's borders in armed conflict where at least one side is a government — civil wars, insurgencies and wars between states. The Uppsala Conflict Data Program counts it event by event, every year since 1989.

Deaths in State-Based Armed Conflict, 2025 covers 196 countries on 5 measures. Ukraine is highest, at 90,323; 154 countries share the lowest reading, 0. The middle country reads 0. Against 2024, 46 values changed (27 up, 19 down), the same countries are covered.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

Deaths in State-Based Armed Conflict · Data for 2025

HighestUkraine

90,323

Lowest154 countries share it

0

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

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Deaths in State-Based Armed Conflict, 2025, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 196 countries · select a heading to sort

Deaths in State-Based Armed Conflict, 2025: every country, as published by Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP).
UkraineUKREastern Europe90,323090,32383,717137,314
IsraelISRWestern Asia14,47214,4423013,85815,151
SudanSDNNorthern Africa12,26912,269011,71812,661
DR CongoCODMiddle Africa4,5254,52504,29821,509
RussiaRUSEastern Europe4,431134,4183,6113,593
EthiopiaETHEastern Africa4,3314,33102,71516,721
PakistanPAKSouthern Asia3,0963,069272,9744,675
SomaliaSOMEastern Africa3,0953,09503,0353,673
Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa3,0313,03102,9624,491
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia2,1092,10902,0753,110
NigeriaNGAWestern Africa1,8641,86401,6402,094
YemenYEMWestern Asia1,4104659458541,741
MaliMLIWestern Africa1,3571,35701,3121,835
IranIRNSouthern Asia1,249591,1901,1131,264
HaitiHTICaribbean1,2111,21101,1131,336
SyriaSYRWestern Asia73570035734757
NigerNERWestern Africa7247240696862
IndiaINDSouthern Asia54048654532556
LebanonLBNWestern Asia3473452347349
ColombiaCOLSouth America3073070288340
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia306142164162806
MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa2962960198349
South SudanSSDEastern Africa2822820277446
CameroonCMRMiddle Africa2402400224266
Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa1971970193213

02In 2025

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. Ukraine90,323
  2. Israel14,472
  3. Sudan12,269
  4. DR Congo4,525
  5. Russia4,431

Lowest

  1. Zimbabweshared0
  2. Zambiashared0
  3. South Africashared0
  4. Kosovoshared0
  5. Samoashared0

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Within the state (intrastate)

    HighestIsrael14,442

    Lowest156 share it

    Middle country: 0

  • Between states (interstate)

    HighestUkraine90,323

    Lowest184 share it

    Middle country: 0

  • Low estimate

    HighestUkraine83,717

    Lowest154 share it

    Middle country: 0

  • High estimate

    HighestUkraine137,314

    Lowest154 share it

    Middle country: 0

032024 → 2025

Since 2024

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 46values changed, of 196 in both
  • 27 · 19rose · fell
  • 150unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do.

04Caveats

Read before you use

How values are stored

  • 42 distinct values among 196

    Values are stored exactly as published. 154 countries share 0. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 196 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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

Cite this edition

Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) (2025). Deaths in State-Based Armed Conflict, 2025 [data set], describing 2025. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/state-based-conflict-deaths/2025

0637 held

Other years