UCDP · Conflict & Displacement
South Sudan: Deaths in state-based armed conflict
282deaths · 2025-42.8% 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 South Sudan from 2011 to 2025.
Every year
| Year | Value (deaths) | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 282 | |
| 2024 | 25 | |
| 2023 | 2 | |
| 2022 | 23 | |
| 2021 | 188 | |
| 2020 | 64 | |
| 2019 | 115 | |
| 2018 | 543 | |
| 2017 | 484 | |
| 2016 | 735 | |
| 2015 | 493 | |
| 2014 | 1,674 | |
| 2013 | 927 | |
| 2012 | 266 | |
| 2011 | 220 |
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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