Countries With the Highest Armed Conflict Present

Every country with a figure for armed conflict present, ranked from highest to lowest. The top three are Afghanistan (1), Angola (1) and Argentina (1). The middle country of the 197 has 0.

What this measures

Whether an armed conflict is taking place in the country, in 1 if any conflict, else 0. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University. For this measure, higher is worse.

One if any armed conflict took place on the country's territory that year, and zero if not. That makes it the site's first true yes-or-no measure. A link with a yes-or-no measure is a fair one: it compares the countries at war with the countries not at war. It answers a different question from the death rate: whether a country has a war at all, not how many people die. The two are treated as measuring the same thing, so their pair reads as two views of one thing, not as a finding. It is kept out of the crime score. A yes-or-no flag averaged into a combined score beside a rate would count the same conflicts twice.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2025–2025. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on armed conflict present

• Countries With the Lowest Armed Conflict Present
• Armed conflict present by country: trend over time and what it goes with

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