Stacked area
Deaths From Organized Violence
Deaths in organized violence worldwide by type, per month
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
Uppsala Conflict Data Program (CC BY 4.0). Recent months are candidate data and are revised.
Deaths in wars, fighting between armed groups and attacks on civilians, from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. The largest spikes correspond to specific wars.
What this chart reads
- State-based conflict deaths (UCDP, monthly)as “State-based conflict”behindlatest 2026-08-01
- Non-state conflict deaths (UCDP, monthly)as “Non-state conflict”behindlatest 2026-08-01
- One-sided violence deaths (UCDP, monthly)as “Violence against civilians”behindlatest 2026-08-01
Sources
State-based conflict deaths (UCDP, monthly). Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program codes every event of organized violence from news and NGO reports, assigning best, low and high fatality estimates. Palanor sums the best estimates by month, drawing final figures from the annual GED release and recent months from the preliminary Candidate release.
Non-state conflict deaths (UCDP, monthly). Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program. Monthly sums of deaths from the best estimate in the GED annual release and the preliminary Candidate release, coded from news and NGO sources. Palanor syncs the data weekly.
One-sided violence deaths (UCDP, monthly). Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program codes every organized violence event with at least one death from news and NGO reports. Palanor sums monthly best estimates from the annual GED release and preliminary monthly Candidate release, synced weekly.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.