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Afghanistan: Deaths in state-based armed conflict

306deaths · 2025-98.2% since 2015

Deaths in fighting where at least one side is a government. Summed from UCDP's events by country and year (best estimate). Events in Gaza and the West Bank, which UCDP files under Israel, are counted under West Bank and Gaza. From a country's first recorded event onward, a year with no events is zero. Annual figures for Afghanistan from 1989 to 2025.

19892025

Every year

YearValue (deaths)Note
2025306
2024264
2023270
20221,010
202135,787
202020,489
201929,940
201825,702
201719,022
201617,993
201517,304
201412,294
20138,056
20127,690
20117,403
20106,864
20096,341
20085,553
20076,923
20064,750
20051,595
2004715
2003687
2002900
20015,055
20005,235
19994,629
19986,256
19976,396
19963,177
19955,499
19948,937
19934,071
19924,287
19913,302
19901,478
19895,174

Source

Published by UCDP, produced by Uppsala Conflict Data Program. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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UCDP (2026). Deaths in state-based armed conflict. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/ucdp-deaths-state-based (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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