Deaths in State-Based Conflicts 1946-Present (UCDP/PRIO via OWID, by region)

UCDP/PRIO state-based conflict deaths by OWID world region, sampled every 5 years plus the last year.

Data Summary

• Regions are OWID regions, not civilizations; no civ mapping is attempted.
• Sampling is every 5th year: peaks between samples are missed; full CSV is in the raw directory.

Citations

• owid-ucdp-state-based-deaths-data [formal] UCDP/PRIO via Our World in Data (2024). Our World in Data grapher: Deaths in ongoing state-based conflicts, by world region (UCDP/PRIO) - CSV. Our World in Data. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-in-state-based-conflicts-by-world-region. Verified 2026-10-11 (resolves).
• gleditsch2002-armed-conflict [formal] Nils Petter Gleditsch, Peter Wallensteen, Mikael Eriksson, Margareta Sollenberg, Håvard Strand (2002). Armed Conflict 1946-2001: A New Dataset. Journal of Peace Research 39(5). DOI 10.1177/0022343302039005007 (Crossref-verified). Verified 2026-10-11 (resolves).
• lacina2005-monitoring-trends [formal] Bethany Lacina, Nils Petter Gleditsch (2005). Monitoring Trends in Global Combat: A New Dataset of Battle Deaths. European Journal of Population 21. DOI 10.1007/s10680-005-6851-6 (Crossref-verified). Verified 2026-10-11 (resolves).

Series values: see series.war-gap.json (ids prefixed war state based conflict deaths 1946 present).