Fragile and conflict affected situations - Battle related deaths

Battle-related deaths (number of people)

The value for Battle-related deaths (number of people) in Fragile and conflict affected situations was 46,803 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 11 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 101,194 in 2014 and a minimum value of 12,763 in 2009.

Definition: Battle-related deaths are deaths in battle-related conflicts between warring parties in the conflict dyad (two conflict units that are parties to a conflict). Typically, battle-related deaths occur in warfare involving the armed forces of the warring parties. This includes traditional battlefield fighting, guerrilla activities, and all kinds of bombardments of military units, cities, and villages, etc. The targets are usually the military itself and its installations or state institutions and state representatives, but there is often substantial collateral damage in the form of civilians being killed in crossfire, in indiscriminate bombings, etc. All deaths--military as well as civilian--incurred in such situations, are counted as battle-related deaths.

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/.

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Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility