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Sri Lanka: Deaths in state-based armed conflict

0deaths · 2025

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 Sri Lanka from 1989 to 2025.

19892025

Every year

YearValue (deaths)Note
20250
20240
20230
20220
20210
20200
20190
20180
20170
20160
20150
20140
20130
20120
20110
20100
200910,165
20088,262
20072,494
20061,970
200588
200417
200329
20026
20011,144
20002,525
19991,882
19983,762
19972,880
19963,868
19954,755
1994657
19932,075
19924,091
19916,432
19903,630
1989533

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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Sri Lanka: Deaths in state-based armed conflict (1989–2025) · Interva