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Nigeria: Civilian deaths in organised violence

891deaths · 2025-76.5% 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 Nigeria from 1990 to 2025.

19902025

Every year

YearValue (deaths)Note
2025891
2024532
2023388
2022418
2021276
2020583
2019485
2018581
2017904
2016652
20153,789
20145,256
2013864
2012894
2011191
201097
200918
2008147
20075
200619
20059
200461
2003134
2002119
2001386
200042
19992,505
199842
19974
19965
19951
199456
19933
19921
19910
199080

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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