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State-based battle-related deaths per 100,000 since 1946, 1946 to 2016

Only conflicts in which at least one party was the government of a state and which generated more than 25 battle-related deaths are included. The data refer to direct
violent deaths per 100,000 of world population. Deaths due to disease or famine caused by conflict are excluded. Extra-judicial killings in custody are also excluded.

19462016196019701980199020002010Civil conflictsConflictsbetween statesColonial orimperial conflictsCivil conflictswith foreign stateintervention

Source: UCDP/PRIO

Note: The war categories paraphrase UCDP/PRIO's technical definitions of 'Extrasystemic', 'Internal', 'Internationalised internal' and 'Interstate' respectively. In a small number of cases where wars were
ascribed more than one type, deaths have been apportioned evenly to each type.