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Congo, The Democratic Republic of the: Deaths in state-based armed conflict

4525deaths · 2025+1667.6% 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 Congo, The Democratic Republic of the from 1989 to 2025.

19892025

Every year

YearValue (deaths)Note
20254,525
20241,166
2023729
20221,755
20211,080
20201,232
2019796
2018858
20173,718
2016828
2015256
20141,004
20131,543
2012861
2011330
2010332
20091,961
2008770
2007633
2006177
200534
20040
20030
2002114
2001509
20001,473
19993,254
19983,441
19974,599
19961,372
19950
19943
19930
19920
19910
19900
19890

Source

Published by UCDP, produced by Uppsala Conflict Data Program. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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UCDP (2026). Deaths in state-based armed conflict. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/ucdp-deaths-state-based (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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