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Nigeria: Deaths in organised violence, total

4158deaths · 2025-54.4% since 2015

All three UCDP types together: state-based, non-state and one-sided. 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
20254,158
20243,201
20234,150
20222,970
20213,234
20203,120
20192,481
20183,244
20173,594
20163,951
20159,121
201410,346
20133,391
20122,022
20111,831
2010980
2009533
2008432
2007157
2006231
2005233
20042,136
2003449
2002629
20012,437
20002,104
19993,519
1998357
1997595
199687
19951
199490
19931,185
1992943
1991380
199089

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

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