Data behind: Deaths in all armed conflicts per 100,000 world population, by type (UCDP)

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Deaths in all armed conflicts per 100,000 world population, by type (UCDP)

How it's computed: UCDP best estimates of direct violent deaths, all five violence types, 1989 onward. Rates use OWID's world population series (HYDE, Gapminder, UN World Population Prospects) for the year in question. Values exactly as published by the source (rounded).
Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program (2026); geoBoundaries (2023); Population based on various sources (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data · link [2] [3]
As of: 2025 · fetched 30 Oct 2026

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Year / date	One-sided violence (deaths per 100,000 people)	Non-state (deaths per 100,000 people)	Intrastate (deaths per 100,000 people)	Interstate (deaths per 100,000 people)
1989	0.155342	0.079893	1.0499	0.01663
1990	0.18554	0.09884	1.491001	0.020442
1991	0.180372	0.071438	0.896976	0.405107
1992	0.213162	0.190486	0.972372	0.000455
1993	0.253059	0.264054	0.806295	0
1994	13.777677	0.093638	0.679991	0.000742
1995	0.367203	0.077829	0.638378	0.001724
1996	0.932049	0.072035	0.494634	0.001562
1997	0.358945	0.072893	0.681562	0.00215
1998	0.289401	0.058822	0.652685	0.019151
1999	0.240508	0.100265	0.549111	0.792733
2000	0.138364	0.120715	0.462336	0.816226
2001	0.143145	0.082196	0.355627	0.023171
2002	0.219152	0.101141	0.331465	0.003355
2003	0.211705	0.055676	0.235903	0.127535
2004	0.189476	0.064171	0.304062	0
2005	0.088555	0.033376	0.189368	0
2006	0.067258	0.046227	0.304978	0
2007	0.074418	0.062455	0.287653	0
2008	0.065777	0.090672	0.422473	0.000513
2009	0.088431	0.136487	0.520866	0
2010	0.05356	0.125744	0.309246	0
2011	0.097679	0.132049	0.361142	0.000409
2012	0.090103	0.140197	1.027597	0.005111
2013	0.160624	0.132073	1.285435	0.000426
2014	0.208393	0.265454	1.575361	0.000666
2015	0.146095	0.212222	1.401696	0.000846
2016	0.105306	0.227116	1.20257	0.001658
2017	0.122626	0.407279	0.9442	0.001981
2018	0.067293	0.361592	0.712572	0.003114
2019	0.071072	0.244334	0.672381	0.003877
2020	0.113772	0.262891	0.921707	0.008239
2021	0.151662	0.276193	2.516273	0.002799
2022	0.152171	0.246809	2.316596	1.24616
2023	0.14055	0.237228	0.774602	0.947002
2024	0.175202	0.217774	0.641074	1.263768
2025	0.931369	0.176435	0.684678	1.187037