Countries With the Highest Conflict Deaths

Every country with a figure for conflict deaths, ranked from highest to lowest. The top three are West Bank and Gaza (259), Ukraine (232) and Sudan (145). The middle country of the 197 has 0.

What this measures

Deaths in armed conflicts, per 100,000 people. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University. For this measure, higher is worse.

Deaths from organised violence on a country's territory, per 100,000 of its people. That covers fighting involving a government, fighting between other armed groups, and attacks on civilians. Deaths are counted where the fighting happens, not by who was fighting. So a war fought on one country's soil by another country's army counts here. It is zero for most countries in most years, and in the hundreds per hundred thousand for a few at war. That is why it is put on a log scale (which squeezes very large values together) where it is used for adjusting. It is also why the "leave one out" check matters on every pair involving it: a handful of countries carry the whole link. The site's only other measure of violence is the homicide rate, which counts something different. A peaceful country can have a high homicide rate, and a country at war can have a low one. It is kept out of every topic score. In 2023, 143 of the 197 countries reporting it report exactly zero. A log scale, used here since a few values are huge, cannot handle zero, so every zero becomes a blank. A safety score built on it covered 79 countries instead of 172. It silently dropped the peaceful ones, the opposite of what such a score should say. A score needs parts that vary across nearly every country. This one is a rare event almost everywhere and the biggest fact in a dozen places. That makes it worth its own page, and useless inside an average.

A log scale measures change in percentage terms.

The full ranking

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

More on conflict deaths

• Countries With the Lowest Conflict Deaths
• Conflict deaths by country: trend over time and what it goes with

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