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Ethiopia: Civilian deaths in organised violence

948deaths · 2025+267.4% since 2015

Civilian deaths UCDP records across all three types of violence. 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 Ethiopia from 1989 to 2025.

19892025

Every year

YearValue (deaths)Note
2025948
20241,410
2023648
20222,442
20215,504
20203,210
2019176
2018248
2017173
2016301
2015258
20149
201311
201288
20111
20100
20097
20081
2007241
200620
200558
2004244
2003511
200235
20010
20000
199916
19989
19970
19960
19950
19940
199326
19920
1991212
1990737
19891,015

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). Civilian deaths in organised violence. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/ucdp-civilian-deaths (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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