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Civilian deaths in organised violence

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.

Coverage
127 of 238 countries
Latest data
2025
Series
127
Unit
deaths
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-05
Indicator
ucdp-civilian-deaths
Interva ID
ucdp-civilian-deaths

Recency

current

data to 2025; catalog to 2025

Provenance

1 step

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

This profile describes what Interva can measure in the data. It does not claim the dataset is accurate, complete, or suitable for a particular use.

Recency

100%

Latest observation is 2025; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 0 year(s) behind (current).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

100%

0 of 127 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 127 of the 238 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 36 observations; the earliest begins in 1989.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.

By country

Civilian deaths in organised violence for each of the 127 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan2025124deaths
Albania20250deaths
Algeria20250deaths
Angola20250deaths
Argentina202545deaths
Armenia20250deaths
Australia20250deaths
Austria20250deaths
Azerbaijan20250deaths
Bahrain20250deaths

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as UCDP declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    Uppsala Conflict Data Program

    UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset 26.1 — deaths_civilians, summed by Interva from events to country and year

    declared by ucdp in GED

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-05. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

UCDP (2026). Civilian deaths in organised violence. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/ucdp-civilian-deaths (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-ucdp-civilian-deaths,
  title        = {Civilian deaths in organised violence},
  author       = {UCDP},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/ucdp-civilian-deaths}},
  note         = {Interva dataset ucdp-civilian-deaths; catalog snapshot 2026-11-05},
  urldate      = {2026-11-07}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

API access

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