Conflict · VC.BTL.DETH

Battle-related deaths

The number of people killed in battle-related incidents in state-based armed conflicts: combatants and civilians who die as a direct result of fighting.

Total · not an average or median

First official point · 1989

55,667

deaths

Latest official point · 2025

153,643

deaths

Published World points

1989–2025

Gaps are years without a published World value. The line is not interpolated.

How this series is built

World total. Neither an average nor a median.

Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) Battle-Related Deaths Dataset, conflict-year file (bd_best). World Bank WDI redistributes this series as VC.BTL.DETH but leaves the World row empty, so the World total is taken from UCDP: the sum of each conflict-year best estimate (one row per conflict and year, no country averaging). Direct battle deaths only — not famine, disease, or other indirect war deaths. Not a share of all deaths.

Source

Aggregate: Total · not an average or median
Producer: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University
Series: UCDP Battle-Related Deaths Dataset
Series code: VC.BTL.DETH
License: CC BY 4.0
Fetched: 2026-08-17

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