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Uppsala Conflict Data Program, http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/.
DEFINITION
Battle-related deaths are deaths in battle-related conflicts between warring parties in the conflict dyad (two conflict units that are parties to a conflict). Typically, battle-related deaths occur in warfare involving the armed forces of the warring parties. This includes traditional battlefield fighting, guerrilla activities, and all kinds of bombardments of military units, cities, and villages, etc. The targets are usually the military itself and its installations or state institutions and state representatives, but there is often substantial collateral damage in the form of civilians being killed in crossfire, in indiscriminate bombings, etc. All deaths--military as well as civilian--incurred in such situations, are counted as battle-related deaths."
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Rank
Countries
Amount
Date
# 1
Iraq :
13,766
2008
Iraqi Military
# 2
Sri Lanka :
11,144
2008
Sri Lankan Military
# 3
Pakistan :
6,665
2008
Pakistani Military
# 4
Afghanistan :
4,489
2008
Afghan Military
# 5
India :
1,962
2008
Indian Military
# 6
Colombia :
1,937
2008
Colombian Military
# 7
Ethiopia :
1,910.8
2008
Ethiopian Military
# 8
Somalia :
1,483
2008
Somali Military
# 9
Sudan :
999.97
2008
Sudanese Military
# 10
Chad :
713
2008
Chadian Military
# 11
Georgia :
621
2008
Georgian Military
# 12
Congo, Democratic Republic of the :
610
2008
Congolese Military
# 13
Turkey :
580
2008
Turkish Military
# 14
Philippines :
562
2008
Philippine Military
# 15
Israel :
486
2008
Israeli Military
= 16
Russia :
339
2008
Russian Military
= 16
Algeria :
339
2008
Algerian Military
# 18
Thailand :
230
2008
Thai Military
# 19
Burundi :
201
2008
Burundian Military
# 20
Burma :
66
2008
Burmese Military
# 21
Mali :
58
2008
Malian Military
# 22
Niger :
47
2008
Nigerien Military
# 23
Peru :
36
2008
Peruvian Military
= 24
Nepal :
0
2008
Nepalese Military
= 24
Ghana :
0
2008
Ghanaian Military
= 24
Vietnam :
0
2008
Vietnamese Military
= 24
Guam :
0
2008
Guamanian Military
= 24
Tonga :
0
2008
Tongan Military
= 24
Guyana :
0
2008
Guyanese Military
= 24
Mexico :
0
2008
Mexican Military
= 24
Hungary :
0
2008
Hungarian Military
= 24
Spain :
0
2008
Spanish Military
= 24
Italy :
0
2008
Italian Military
= 24
United Kingdom :
0
2008
British Military
= 24
Jordan :
0
2008
Jordanian Military
= 24
Mauritania :
0
2008
Mauritanian Military
= 24
Kuwait :
0
2008
Kuwaiti Military
= 24
Vanuatu :
0
2008
- Military
= 24
Latvia :
0
2008
Latvian Military
= 24
Slovenia :
0
2008
Slovenian Military
= 24
Liechtenstein :
0
2008
Liechtenstein Military
= 24
Switzerland :
0
2008
Swiss Military
= 24
Madagascar :
0
2008
Malagasy Military
= 24
East Timor :
0
2008
Timorese Military
= 24
Malawi :
0
2008
Malawian Military
= 24
Uruguay :
0
2008
Uruguayan Military
= 24
Seychelles :
0
2008
Seychellois Military
= 24
Swaziland :
0
2008
Swazi Military
= 24
Puerto Rico :
0
2008
Puerto Rican Military
= 24
Gambia, The :
0
2008
Gambian Military
= 24
Rwanda :
0
2008
Rwandan Military
= 24
Greenland :
0
2008
Greenlandic Military
= 24
Saudi Arabia :
0
2008
Saudi Military
= 24
Guatemala :
0
2008
Guatemalan Military
= 24
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
0
2008
Nevisian Military
= 24
Honduras :
0
2008
Honduran Military
= 24
Qatar :
0
2008
Qatari Military
= 24
Indonesia :
0
2008
Indonesian Military
= 24
Marshall Islands :
0
2008
Marshallese Military
= 24
Japan :
0
2008
Japanese Military
= 24
Romania :
0
2008
Romanian Military
= 24
Kyrgyzstan :
0
2008
Kyrgyzstani Military
= 24
Suriname :
0
2008
Surinamese Military
= 24
Laos :
0
2008
Lao Military
= 24
Netherlands Antilles :
0
2008
Dutch Antillean Military
= 24
Liberia :
0
2008
Liberian Military
= 24
Nicaragua :
0
2008
Nicaraguan Military
= 24
Luxembourg :
0
2008
Luxembourg Military
= 24
New Zealand :
0
2008
New Zealand Military
= 24
Mayotte :
0
2008
Mahoran Military
= 24
Paraguay :
0
2008
Paraguayan Military
= 24
Monaco :
0
2008
Monegasque Military
= 24
Poland :
0
2008
Polish Military
= 24
Oman :
0
2008
Omani Military
= 24
Panama :
0
2008
Panamanian Military
= 24
Mozambique :
0
2008
Mozambican Military
= 24
Portugal :
0
2008
Portuguese Military
= 24
Netherlands :
0
2008
Dutch Military
= 24
Papua New Guinea :
0
2008
Papua New Guinean Military
= 24
South Africa :
0
2008
South African Military
= 24
Palau :
0
2008
Palauan Military
= 24
San Marino :
0
2008
Sammarinese Military
= 24
Guinea-Bissau :
0
2008
Guinean Military
= 24
Sweden :
0
2008
Swedish Military
= 24
Antigua and Barbuda :
0
2008
Barbudan Military
= 24
Trinidad and Tobago :
0
2008
Tobagonian Military
= 24
Azerbaijan :
0
2008
Azerbaijani Military
= 24
São Tomé and Príncipe :
0
2008
Sao Tomean Military
= 24
Albania :
0
2008
Albanian Military
= 24
Tanzania :
0
2008
Tanzanian Military
= 24
Armenia :
0
2008
Armenian Military
= 24
United States :
0
2008
American Military
= 24
Angola :
0
2008
Angolan Military
= 24
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
0
2008
Saint Vincentian Military
= 24
American Samoa :
0
2008
American Samoan Military
= 24
Namibia :
0
2008
Namibian Military
= 24
Argentina :
0
2008
Argentine Military
= 24
Zambia :
0
2008
Zambian Military
= 24
Australia :
0
2008
Australian Military
= 24
Austria :
0
2008
Austrian Military
= 24
Gabon :
0
2008
Gabonese Military
= 24
Bahrain :
0
2008
Bahraini Military
= 24
Grenada :
0
2008
Grenadian Military
= 24
Barbados :
0
2008
Barbadian Military
= 24
Germany :
0
2008
German Military
= 24
Botswana :
0
2008
Motswana -Batswana Military
= 24
Greece :
0
2008
Greek Military
= 24
Bermuda :
0
2008
Bermudian Military
= 24
Guinea :
0
2008
Guinean Military
= 24
Belgium :
0
2008
Belgian Military
= 24
Haiti :
0
2008
Haitian Military
= 24
Bahamas, The :
0
2008
Bahamian Military
= 24
Croatia :
0
2008
Croatian Military
= 24
Bangladesh :
0
2008
Bangladeshi Military
= 24
Iceland :
0
2008
Icelandic Military
= 24
Belize :
0
2008
Belizean Military
= 24
Man, Isle of :
0
2008
Manx Military
= 24
Bosnia and Herzegovina :
0
2008
Herzegovinian Military
= 24
Côte d'Ivoire :
0
2008
Ivoirian Military
= 24
Bolivia :
0
2008
Bolivian Military
= 24
Jamaica :
0
2008
Jamaican Military
= 24
Benin :
0
2008
Beninese Military
= 24
Kenya :
0
2008
Kenyan Military
= 24
Belarus :
0
2008
Belarusian Military
= 24
Kiribati :
0
2008
- Military
= 24
Solomon Islands :
0
2008
Solomon Islander Military
= 24
Kazakhstan :
0
2008
Kazakhstani Military
= 24
Brazil :
0
2008
Brazilian Military
= 24
Lebanon :
0
2008
Lebanese Military
= 24
Bhutan :
0
2008
Bhutanese Military
= 24
Lithuania :
0
2008
Lithuanian Military
= 24
Bulgaria :
0
2008
Bulgarian Military
= 24
Slovakia :
0
2008
Slovak Military
= 24
Brunei :
0
2008
Bruneian Military
= 24
Lesotho :
0
2008
Basotho Military
= 24
Canada :
0
2008
Canadian Military
= 24
Libya :
0
2008
Libyan Military
= 24
Cambodia :
0
2008
Cambodian Military
= 24
Moldova :
0
2008
Moldovan Military
= 24
Congo, Republic of the :
0
2008
Congolese Military
= 24
Mongolia :
0
2008
Mongolian Military
= 24
China :
0
2008
Chinese Military
= 24
Macedonia, Republic of :
0
2008
Macedonian Military
= 24
Chile :
0
2008
Chilean Military
= 24
Mauritius :
0
2008
Mauritian Military
= 24
Cayman Islands :
0
2008
Caymanian Military
= 24
Malta :
0
2008
Maltese Military
= 24
Cameroon :
0
2008
Cameroonian Military
= 24
Maldives :
0
2008
Maldivian Military
= 24
Comoros :
0
2008
Comoran Military
= 24
Malaysia :
0
2008
Malaysian Military
= 24
Northern Mariana Islands :
0
2008
NA Military
= 24
New Caledonia :
0
2008
New Caledonian Military
= 24
Costa Rica :
0
2008
Costa Rican Military
= 24
Nigeria :
0
2008
Nigerian Military
= 24
Central African Republic :
0
2008
Central African Military
= 24
Norway :
0
2008
Norwegian Military
= 24
Cuba :
0
2008
Cuban Military
= 24
Aruba :
0
2008
Aruban Military
= 24
Cape Verde :
0
2008
Cape Verdean Military
= 24
Senegal :
0
2008
Senegalese Military
= 24
Cyprus :
0
2008
Cypriot Military
= 24
Sierra Leone :
0
2008
Sierra Leonean Military
= 24
Denmark :
0
2008
Danish Military
= 24
Singapore :
0
2008
Singapore Military
= 24
Djibouti :
0
2008
Djiboutian Military
= 24
Saint Lucia :
0
2008
Saint Lucian Military
= 24
Dominica :
0
2008
Dominican Military
= 24
Syria :
0
2008
Syrian Military
= 24
Dominican Republic :
0
2008
Dominican Military
= 24
United Arab Emirates :
0
2008
Emirati Military
= 24
Ecuador :
0
2008
Ecuadorian Military
= 24
Tajikistan :
0
2008
Tajikistani Military
= 24
Ireland :
0
2008
Irish Military
= 24
Togo :
0
2008
Togolese Military
= 24
Equatorial Guinea :
0
2008
Equatorial Guinean Military
= 24
Tunisia :
0
2008
Tunisian Military
= 24
Estonia :
0
2008
Estonian Military
= 24
Turkmenistan :
0
2008
Turkmen Military
= 24
Eritrea :
0
2008
Eritrean Military
= 24
Uganda :
0
2008
Ugandan Military
= 24
El Salvador :
0
2008
Salvadoran Military
= 24
Ukraine :
0
2008
Ukrainian Military
= 23
Burkina Faso :
0
2008
Burkinabe Military
= 23
Czech Republic :
0
2008
Czech Military
= 23
Uzbekistan :
0
2008
Uzbekistani Military
= 23
Finland :
0
2008
Finnish Military
= 23
Venezuela :
0
2008
Venezuelan Military
= 23
Fiji :
0
2008
Fijian Military
= 23
Virgin Islands :
0
2008
Virgin Islander Military
= 23
Faroe Islands :
0
2008
Faroese Military
= 23
Samoa :
0
2008
Samoan Military
= 23
French Polynesia :
0
2008
French Polynesian Military
= 23
Serbia and Montenegro :
0
2008
Serbian Military
= 23
France :
0
2008
French Military
= 23
Zimbabwe :
0
2008
Zimbabwean Military
Weighted average:
250.0
Historical countries, unions or other regions:
European Union
0
DEFINITION: Battle-related deaths are deaths in battle-related conflicts between warring parties in the conflict dyad (two conflict units that are parties to a conflict). Typically, battle-related deaths occur in warfare involving the armed forces of the warring parties. This includes traditional battlefield fighting, guerrilla activities, and all kinds of bombardments of military units, cities, and villages, etc. The targets are usually the military itself and its installations or state institutions and state representatives, but there is often substantial collateral damage in the form of civilians being killed in crossfire, in indiscriminate bombings, etc. All deaths--military as well as civilian--incurred in such situations, are counted as battle-related deaths."
SOURCE: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/.
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CITATION
"War deaths by country", Uppsala Conflict Data Program, http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/.. Retrieved from http://www.NationMaster.com/graph/mil_war_dea-military-war-deaths
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