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Iraq: Deaths in state-based armed conflict

132deaths · 2025-98.7% 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 Iraq from 1989 to 2025.

19892025

Every year

YearValue (deaths)Note
2025132
2024431
2023483
20221,025
2021874
2020905
2019824
20181,294
201710,248
20169,630
201510,138
201413,168
20131,885
2012638
20111,043
20101,120
20091,064
20082,265
20072,241
20063,956
20052,631
20044,132
20037,943
200253
200169
200054
1999274
199851
19971,336
1996609
1995779
1994249
1993115
1992347
199122,760
199094
198950

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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