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Ethiopia: Deaths in state-based armed conflict

4331deaths · 2025+8738.8% 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 Ethiopia from 1989 to 2025.

19892025

Every year

YearValue (deaths)Note
20254,331
20242,886
20231,725
2022163,210
2021124,553
202020,916
201967
201818
20170
201650
201549
201430
201377
201250
201151
2010151
2009515
200850
2007177
200650
200583
200450
200350
200250
200140
200048,257
199930,729
1998258
19976
199652
199543
199476
199336
1992174
199112,225
199049,698
198924,358

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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