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Nigeria: Deaths in state-based armed conflict

1864deaths · 2025-59.8% 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 Nigeria from 1990 to 2025.

19902025

Every year

YearValue (deaths)Note
20251,864
20241,483
20232,084
20221,536
20212,002
20202,001
20191,326
20181,173
20171,879
20162,491
20154,637
20143,819
20131,629
2012811
2011325
201018
2009405
20080
20070
20060
20050
2004151
20031
20020
20010
20000
19990
19980
19970
19960
19950
19940
19930
19920
19910
19900

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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