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SOURCE
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
Cambodia :
32,500
1978
Cambodian Military
# 2
Ethiopia :
25,625.22
1978
Ethiopian Military
# 3
Zimbabwe :
10,007
1978
Zimbabwean Military
# 4
Burma :
9,235.35
1978
Burmese Military
# 5
Indonesia :
8,191
1978
Indonesian Military
# 6
Angola :
5,882
1978
Angolan Military
# 7
Philippines :
4,773.9
1978
Philippine Military
# 8
Nicaragua :
2,500
1978
Nicaraguan Military
# 9
Uganda :
1,923
1978
Ugandan Military
# 10
Guatemala :
1,600
1978
Guatemalan Military
# 11
Chad :
1,511
1978
Chadian Military
# 12
South Africa :
715.11
1978
South African Military
# 13
Thailand :
691.94
1978
Thai Military
# 14
Iraq :
653.86
1978
Iraqi Military
# 15
India :
653.86
1978
Indian Military
# 16
Mauritania :
653.86
1978
Mauritanian Military
# 17
Mozambique :
653.86
1978
Mozambican Military
# 18
Congo, Democratic Republic of the :
593
1978
Congolese Military
# 19
Somalia :
520
1978
Somali Military
# 20
Israel :
257
1978
Israeli Military
# 21
Colombia :
200
1978
Colombian Military
# 22
United Kingdom :
81
1978
British Military
# 23
Bangladesh :
71
1978
Bangladeshi Military
# 24
Bosnia and Herzegovina :
0
1978
Herzegovinian Military
# 25
Brazil :
0
1978
Brazilian Military
# 26
Northern Mariana Islands :
0
1978
NA Military
# 27
Barbados :
0
1978
Barbadian Military
# 28
Vanuatu :
0
1978
- Military
# 29
Brunei :
0
1978
Bruneian Military
# 30
Argentina :
0
1978
Argentine Military
# 31
Bhutan :
0
1978
Bhutanese Military
# 32
Turkmenistan :
0
1978
Turkmen Military
# 33
Botswana :
0
1978
Motswana -Batswana Military
# 34
Maldives :
0
1978
Maldivian Military
# 35
Central African Republic :
0
1978
Central African Military
# 36
Bolivia :
0
1978
Bolivian Military
# 37
Canada :
0
1978
Canadian Military
# 38
Qatar :
0
1978
Qatari Military
# 39
Switzerland :
0
1978
Swiss Military
# 40
Sweden :
0
1978
Swedish Military
# 41
Chile :
0
1978
Chilean Military
# 42
Ukraine :
0
1978
Ukrainian Military
# 43
China :
0
1978
Chinese Military
# 44
Latvia :
0
1978
Latvian Military
# 45
Côte d'Ivoire :
0
1978
Ivoirian Military
# 46
Mali :
0
1978
Malian Military
# 47
Cameroon :
0
1978
Cameroonian Military
# 48
Malawi :
0
1978
Malawian Military
# 49
Congo, Republic of the :
0
1978
Congolese Military
# 50
Oman :
0
1978
Omani Military
# 51
Bermuda :
0
1978
Bermudian Military
# 52
Puerto Rico :
0
1978
Puerto Rican Military
# 53
Comoros :
0
1978
Comoran Military
# 54
Saudi Arabia :
0
1978
Saudi Military
# 55
Cape Verde :
0
1978
Cape Verdean Military
# 56
São Tomé and Príncipe :
0
1978
Sao Tomean Military
# 57
Costa Rica :
0
1978
Costa Rican Military
# 58
United Arab Emirates :
0
1978
Emirati Military
# 59
Cuba :
0
1978
Cuban Military
# 60
Tunisia :
0
1978
Tunisian Military
# 61
Cayman Islands :
0
1978
Caymanian Military
# 62
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
0
1978
Saint Vincentian Military
# 63
Cyprus :
0
1978
Cypriot Military
# 64
Lithuania :
0
1978
Lithuanian Military
# 65
Czech Republic :
0
1978
Czech Military
# 66
Moldova :
0
1978
Moldovan Military
# 67
Germany :
0
1978
German Military
# 68
Marshall Islands :
0
1978
Marshallese Military
# 69
Djibouti :
0
1978
Djiboutian Military
# 70
Australia :
0
1978
Australian Military
# 71
Dominica :
0
1978
Dominican Military
# 72
American Samoa :
0
1978
American Samoan Military
# 73
Denmark :
0
1978
Danish Military
# 74
Mayotte :
0
1978
Mahoran Military
# 75
Dominican Republic :
0
1978
Dominican Military
# 76
Nepal :
0
1978
Nepalese Military
# 77
Algeria :
0
1978
Algerian Military
# 78
Panama :
0
1978
Panamanian Military
# 79
Ecuador :
0
1978
Ecuadorian Military
# 80
Papua New Guinea :
0
1978
Papua New Guinean Military
# 81
Eritrea :
0
1978
Eritrean Military
# 82
Paraguay :
0
1978
Paraguayan Military
# 83
Spain :
0
1978
Spanish Military
# 84
Russia :
0
1978
Russian Military
# 85
Estonia :
0
1978
Estonian Military
# 86
Senegal :
0
1978
Senegalese Military
# 87
Bulgaria :
0
1978
Bulgarian Military
# 88
Bahamas, The :
0
1978
Bahamian Military
# 89
Belize :
0
1978
Belizean Military
# 90
Slovakia :
0
1978
Slovak Military
# 91
Finland :
0
1978
Finnish Military
# 92
Seychelles :
0
1978
Seychellois Military
# 93
Fiji :
0
1978
Fijian Military
# 94
Netherlands Antilles :
0
1978
Dutch Antillean Military
# 95
France :
0
1978
French Military
# 96
Tonga :
0
1978
Tongan Military
# 97
Faroe Islands :
0
1978
Faroese Military
# 98
Tanzania :
0
1978
Tanzanian Military
# 99
Gabon :
0
1978
Gabonese Military
# 100
United States :
0
1978
American Military
# 101
Belarus :
0
1978
Belarusian Military
# 102
Virgin Islands :
0
1978
Virgin Islander Military
# 103
Georgia :
0
1978
Georgian Military
# 104
Bahrain :
0
1978
Bahraini Military
# 105
Ghana :
0
1978
Ghanaian Military
# 106
Luxembourg :
0
1978
Luxembourg Military
# 107
Guinea :
0
1978
Guinean Military
# 108
Monaco :
0
1978
Monegasque Military
# 109
Gambia, The :
0
1978
Gambian Military
# 110
Madagascar :
0
1978
Malagasy Military
# 111
Guinea-Bissau :
0
1978
Guinean Military
# 112
Mexico :
0
1978
Mexican Military
# 113
Equatorial Guinea :
0
1978
Equatorial Guinean Military
# 114
Macedonia, Republic of :
0
1978
Macedonian Military
# 115
Greece :
0
1978
Greek Military
# 116
Malta :
0
1978
Maltese Military
# 117
Grenada :
0
1978
Grenadian Military
# 118
Mongolia :
0
1978
Mongolian Military
# 119
Greenland :
0
1978
Greenlandic Military
# 120
Antigua and Barbuda :
0
1978
Barbudan Military
# 121
New Caledonia :
0
1978
New Caledonian Military
# 122
Mauritius :
0
1978
Mauritian Military
# 123
Nigeria :
0
1978
Nigerian Military
# 124
Malaysia :
0
1978
Malaysian Military
# 125
Netherlands :
0
1978
Dutch Military
# 126
Namibia :
0
1978
Namibian Military
# 127
Guam :
0
1978
Guamanian Military
# 128
Niger :
0
1978
Nigerien Military
# 129
Guyana :
0
1978
Guyanese Military
# 130
Armenia :
0
1978
Armenian Military
# 131
Honduras :
0
1978
Honduran Military
# 132
Norway :
0
1978
Norwegian Military
# 133
Croatia :
0
1978
Croatian Military
# 134
New Zealand :
0
1978
New Zealand Military
# 135
Haiti :
0
1978
Haitian Military
# 136
Pakistan :
0
1978
Pakistani Military
# 137
Hungary :
0
1978
Hungarian Military
# 138
Peru :
0
1978
Peruvian Military
# 139
Burkina Faso :
0
1978
Burkinabe Military
# 140
Palau :
0
1978
Palauan Military
# 141
Man, Isle of :
0
1978
Manx Military
# 142
Poland :
0
1978
Polish Military
# 143
Benin :
0
1978
Beninese Military
# 144
Portugal :
0
1978
Portuguese Military
# 145
Ireland :
0
1978
Irish Military
# 146
French Polynesia :
0
1978
French Polynesian Military
# 147
Belgium :
0
1978
Belgian Military
# 148
Romania :
0
1978
Romanian Military
# 149
Iceland :
0
1978
Icelandic Military
# 150
Rwanda :
0
1978
Rwandan Military
# 151
Solomon Islands :
0
1978
Solomon Islander Military
# 152
Sudan :
0
1978
Sudanese Military
# 153
El Salvador :
0
1978
Salvadoran Military
# 154
Singapore :
0
1978
Singapore Military
# 155
Italy :
0
1978
Italian Military
# 156
Sierra Leone :
0
1978
Sierra Leonean Military
# 157
Jamaica :
0
1978
Jamaican Military
# 158
San Marino :
0
1978
Sammarinese Military
# 159
Jordan :
0
1978
Jordanian Military
# 160
Serbia and Montenegro :
0
1978
Serbian Military
# 161
Japan :
0
1978
Japanese Military
# 162
Suriname :
0
1978
Surinamese Military
# 163
Kazakhstan :
0
1978
Kazakhstani Military
# 164
Slovenia :
0
1978
Slovenian Military
# 165
Kenya :
0
1978
Kenyan Military
# 166
Swaziland :
0
1978
Swazi Military
# 167
Kyrgyzstan :
0
1978
Kyrgyzstani Military
# 168
Syria :
0
1978
Syrian Military
# 169
Burundi :
0
1978
Burundian Military
# 170
Togo :
0
1978
Togolese Military
# 171
Azerbaijan :
0
1978
Azerbaijani Military
# 172
Tajikistan :
0
1978
Tajikistani Military
# 173
Austria :
0
1978
Austrian Military
# 174
East Timor :
0
1978
Timorese Military
# 175
Aruba :
0
1978
Aruban Military
# 176
Trinidad and Tobago :
0
1978
Tobagonian Military
# 177
Laos :
0
1978
Lao Military
# 178
Turkey :
0
1978
Turkish Military
# 179
Liberia :
0
1978
Liberian Military
# 180
Albania :
0
1978
Albanian Military
# 181
Libya :
0
1978
Libyan Military
# 182
Uruguay :
0
1978
Uruguayan Military
# 183
Saint Lucia :
0
1978
Saint Lucian Military
# 184
Uzbekistan :
0
1978
Uzbekistani Military
# 185
Liechtenstein :
0
1978
Liechtenstein Military
# 186
Venezuela :
0
1978
Venezuelan Military
# 187
Sri Lanka :
0
1978
Sri Lankan Military
# 188
Vietnam :
0
1978
Vietnamese Military
# 189
Lesotho :
0
1978
Basotho Military
# 190
Samoa :
0
1978
Samoan Military
# 191
Kiribati :
0
1978
- Military
# 192
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
0
1978
Nevisian Military
# 193
Zambia :
0
1978
Zambian Military
# 194
Kuwait :
0
1978
Kuwaiti Military
Weighted average:
561.5
Historical countries, unions or other regions:
European Union
81
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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"War deaths (1978) 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&date=1978
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