Lower middle income - Battle related deaths

Battle-related deaths (number of people)

The value for Battle-related deaths (number of people) in Lower middle income was 4,782 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 30 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 17,029 in 1997 and a minimum value of 3,813 in 2005.

Definition: Battle-related deaths are deaths in battle-related conflicts between warring parties in the conflict dyad (two conflict units that are parties to a conflict). Typically, battle-related deaths occur in warfare involving the armed forces of the warring parties. This includes traditional battlefield fighting, guerrilla activities, and all kinds of bombardments of military units, cities, and villages, etc. The targets are usually the military itself and its installations or state institutions and state representatives, but there is often substantial collateral damage in the form of civilians being killed in crossfire, in indiscriminate bombings, etc. All deaths--military as well as civilian--incurred in such situations, are counted as battle-related deaths.

Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/.

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Year Value
1990 12,161
1991 13,108
1997 17,029
1998 13,686
1999 8,591
2000 10,328
2001 5,908
2003 5,895
2004 5,778
2005 3,813
2011 5,339
2014 13,763
2015 11,631
2016 5,722
2017 6,624
2018 4,603
2019 4,543
2020 4,782

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility