South Asia - Battle related deaths

Battle-related deaths (number of people)

The value for Battle-related deaths (number of people) in South Asia was 21,432 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 31 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 30,801 in 2019 and a minimum value of 3,747 in 2003.

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/.

See also:

Year Value
1989 6,735
1990 7,544
1991 12,939
1992 11,445
1993 7,649
1994 10,846
1995 11,159
1996 7,969
1997 10,315
1998 11,201
1999 8,740
2000 11,016
2001 7,823
2002 6,852
2003 3,747
2004 4,328
2005 4,341
2006 9,026
2007 11,233
2008 18,427
2009 24,485
2010 13,944
2011 10,705
2012 11,155
2013 10,278
2014 15,899
2015 19,903
2016 19,451
2017 20,421
2018 26,728
2019 30,801
2020 21,432

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Conflict & fragility