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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
1979
Cambodian Military
# 2
Afghanistan :
30,000
1979
Afghan Military
# 3
Ethiopia :
15,614.93
1979
Ethiopian Military
# 4
Zimbabwe :
9,397
1979
Zimbabwean Military
# 5
Nicaragua :
7,500
1979
Nicaraguan Military
# 6
Angola :
5,882
1979
Angolan Military
# 7
Indonesia :
5,357
1979
Indonesian Military
# 8
Philippines :
4,735.09
1979
Philippine Military
# 9
Burma :
3,289.7
1979
Burmese Military
# 10
Uganda :
1,924
1979
Ugandan Military
# 11
Guatemala :
1,600
1979
Guatemalan Military
# 12
Chad :
1,511
1979
Chadian Military
# 13
South Africa :
715.11
1979
South African Military
# 14
Thailand :
691.94
1979
Thai Military
# 15
Equatorial Guinea :
657.16
1979
Equatorial Guinean Military
# 16
Mozambique :
653.86
1979
Mozambican Military
# 17
Syria :
653.86
1979
Syrian Military
# 18
Iraq :
653.86
1979
Iraqi Military
# 19
India :
653.86
1979
Indian Military
# 20
El Salvador :
300
1979
Salvadoran Military
# 21
Saudi Arabia :
269
1979
Saudi Military
# 22
Israel :
257
1979
Israeli Military
# 23
Colombia :
170
1979
Colombian Military
# 24
United Kingdom :
121
1979
British Military
# 25
Bangladesh :
71
1979
Bangladeshi Military
# 26
Sudan :
0
1979
Sudanese Military
# 27
Barbados :
0
1979
Barbadian Military
# 28
Burkina Faso :
0
1979
Burkinabe Military
# 29
Brunei :
0
1979
Bruneian Military
# 30
Lesotho :
0
1979
Basotho Military
# 31
Bhutan :
0
1979
Bhutanese Military
# 32
Pakistan :
0
1979
Pakistani Military
# 33
Botswana :
0
1979
Motswana -Batswana Military
# 34
Ukraine :
0
1979
Ukrainian Military
# 35
Central African Republic :
0
1979
Central African Military
# 36
Mexico :
0
1979
Mexican Military
# 37
Canada :
0
1979
Canadian Military
# 38
Niger :
0
1979
Nigerien Military
# 39
Switzerland :
0
1979
Swiss Military
# 40
Portugal :
0
1979
Portuguese Military
# 41
Chile :
0
1979
Chilean Military
# 42
Serbia and Montenegro :
0
1979
Serbian Military
# 43
China :
0
1979
Chinese Military
# 44
Burundi :
0
1979
Burundian Military
# 45
Côte d'Ivoire :
0
1979
Ivoirian Military
# 46
Monaco :
0
1979
Monegasque Military
# 47
Cameroon :
0
1979
Cameroonian Military
# 48
Malta :
0
1979
Maltese Military
# 49
Congo, Republic of the :
0
1979
Congolese Military
# 50
Malaysia :
0
1979
Malaysian Military
# 51
Bolivia :
0
1979
Bolivian Military
# 52
Norway :
0
1979
Norwegian Military
# 53
Comoros :
0
1979
Comoran Military
# 54
Palau :
0
1979
Palauan Military
# 55
Cape Verde :
0
1979
Cape Verdean Military
# 56
Romania :
0
1979
Romanian Military
# 57
Costa Rica :
0
1979
Costa Rican Military
# 58
Sierra Leone :
0
1979
Sierra Leonean Military
# 59
Cuba :
0
1979
Cuban Military
# 60
Tunisia :
0
1979
Tunisian Military
# 61
Cayman Islands :
0
1979
Caymanian Military
# 62
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
0
1979
Saint Vincentian Military
# 63
Cyprus :
0
1979
Cypriot Military
# 64
Liechtenstein :
0
1979
Liechtenstein Military
# 65
Czech Republic :
0
1979
Czech Military
# 66
Luxembourg :
0
1979
Luxembourg Military
# 67
Germany :
0
1979
German Military
# 68
Madagascar :
0
1979
Malagasy Military
# 69
Djibouti :
0
1979
Djiboutian Military
# 70
Macedonia, Republic of :
0
1979
Macedonian Military
# 71
Dominica :
0
1979
Dominican Military
# 72
Mongolia :
0
1979
Mongolian Military
# 73
Denmark :
0
1979
Danish Military
# 74
Mauritius :
0
1979
Mauritian Military
# 75
Dominican Republic :
0
1979
Dominican Military
# 76
Namibia :
0
1979
Namibian Military
# 77
Algeria :
0
1979
Algerian Military
# 78
Argentina :
0
1979
Argentine Military
# 79
Ecuador :
0
1979
Ecuadorian Military
# 80
New Zealand :
0
1979
New Zealand Military
# 81
Eritrea :
0
1979
Eritrean Military
# 82
Peru :
0
1979
Peruvian Military
# 83
Spain :
0
1979
Spanish Military
# 84
Poland :
0
1979
Polish Military
# 85
Estonia :
0
1979
Estonian Military
# 86
French Polynesia :
0
1979
French Polynesian Military
# 87
Azerbaijan :
0
1979
Azerbaijani Military
# 88
Rwanda :
0
1979
Rwandan Military
# 89
Bermuda :
0
1979
Bermudian Military
# 90
Singapore :
0
1979
Singapore Military
# 91
Finland :
0
1979
Finnish Military
# 92
San Marino :
0
1979
Sammarinese Military
# 93
Fiji :
0
1979
Fijian Military
# 94
Brazil :
0
1979
Brazilian Military
# 95
France :
0
1979
French Military
# 96
Tanzania :
0
1979
Tanzanian Military
# 97
Faroe Islands :
0
1979
Faroese Military
# 98
United States :
0
1979
American Military
# 99
Gabon :
0
1979
Gabonese Military
# 100
Virgin Islands :
0
1979
Virgin Islander Military
# 101
Belize :
0
1979
Belizean Military
# 102
Saint Lucia :
0
1979
Saint Lucian Military
# 103
Georgia :
0
1979
Georgian Military
# 104
Sri Lanka :
0
1979
Sri Lankan Military
# 105
Ghana :
0
1979
Ghanaian Military
# 106
Lithuania :
0
1979
Lithuanian Military
# 107
Guinea :
0
1979
Guinean Military
# 108
Latvia :
0
1979
Latvian Military
# 109
Gambia, The :
0
1979
Gambian Military
# 110
Moldova :
0
1979
Moldovan Military
# 111
Guinea-Bissau :
0
1979
Guinean Military
# 112
Maldives :
0
1979
Maldivian Military
# 113
Bosnia and Herzegovina :
0
1979
Herzegovinian Military
# 114
Marshall Islands :
0
1979
Marshallese Military
# 115
Greece :
0
1979
Greek Military
# 116
Mali :
0
1979
Malian Military
# 117
Grenada :
0
1979
Grenadian Military
# 118
Armenia :
0
1979
Armenian Military
# 119
Greenland :
0
1979
Greenlandic Military
# 120
Northern Mariana Islands :
0
1979
NA Military
# 121
Austria :
0
1979
Austrian Military
# 122
Mauritania :
0
1979
Mauritanian Military
# 123
Guam :
0
1979
Guamanian Military
# 124
Malawi :
0
1979
Malawian Military
# 125
Guyana :
0
1979
Guyanese Military
# 126
Mayotte :
0
1979
Mahoran Military
# 127
Honduras :
0
1979
Honduran Military
# 128
New Caledonia :
0
1979
New Caledonian Military
# 129
Croatia :
0
1979
Croatian Military
# 130
Nigeria :
0
1979
Nigerian Military
# 131
Haiti :
0
1979
Haitian Military
# 132
Netherlands :
0
1979
Dutch Military
# 133
Hungary :
0
1979
Hungarian Military
# 134
Nepal :
0
1979
Nepalese Military
# 135
Australia :
0
1979
Australian Military
# 136
Oman :
0
1979
Omani Military
# 137
Man, Isle of :
0
1979
Manx Military
# 138
Panama :
0
1979
Panamanian Military
# 139
Bahamas, The :
0
1979
Bahamian Military
# 140
United Arab Emirates :
0
1979
Emirati Military
# 141
Ireland :
0
1979
Irish Military
# 142
Papua New Guinea :
0
1979
Papua New Guinean Military
# 143
Bahrain :
0
1979
Bahraini Military
# 144
Puerto Rico :
0
1979
Puerto Rican Military
# 145
Iceland :
0
1979
Icelandic Military
# 146
Paraguay :
0
1979
Paraguayan Military
# 147
Suriname :
0
1979
Surinamese Military
# 148
Qatar :
0
1979
Qatari Military
# 149
Slovenia :
0
1979
Slovenian Military
# 150
Russia :
0
1979
Russian Military
# 151
Swaziland :
0
1979
Swazi Military
# 152
Benin :
0
1979
Beninese Military
# 153
Bulgaria :
0
1979
Bulgarian Military
# 154
Senegal :
0
1979
Senegalese Military
# 155
Netherlands Antilles :
0
1979
Dutch Antillean Military
# 156
Solomon Islands :
0
1979
Solomon Islander Military
# 157
Belarus :
0
1979
Belarusian Military
# 158
Belgium :
0
1979
Belgian Military
# 159
Turkmenistan :
0
1979
Turkmen Military
# 160
Somalia :
0
1979
Somali Military
# 161
Tonga :
0
1979
Tongan Military
# 162
São Tomé and Príncipe :
0
1979
Sao Tomean Military
# 163
Italy :
0
1979
Italian Military
# 164
Slovakia :
0
1979
Slovak Military
# 165
Jamaica :
0
1979
Jamaican Military
# 166
Sweden :
0
1979
Swedish Military
# 167
Jordan :
0
1979
Jordanian Military
# 168
Seychelles :
0
1979
Seychellois Military
# 169
Japan :
0
1979
Japanese Military
# 170
Kazakhstan :
0
1979
Kazakhstani Military
# 171
Togo :
0
1979
Togolese Military
# 172
Kenya :
0
1979
Kenyan Military
# 173
Tajikistan :
0
1979
Tajikistani Military
# 174
Kyrgyzstan :
0
1979
Kyrgyzstani Military
# 175
East Timor :
0
1979
Timorese Military
# 176
Vanuatu :
0
1979
- Military
# 177
Trinidad and Tobago :
0
1979
Tobagonian Military
# 178
Antigua and Barbuda :
0
1979
Barbudan Military
# 179
Turkey :
0
1979
Turkish Military
# 180
American Samoa :
0
1979
American Samoan Military
# 181
Albania :
0
1979
Albanian Military
# 182
Kuwait :
0
1979
Kuwaiti Military
# 183
Uruguay :
0
1979
Uruguayan Military
# 184
Laos :
0
1979
Lao Military
# 185
Uzbekistan :
0
1979
Uzbekistani Military
# 186
Liberia :
0
1979
Liberian Military
# 187
Venezuela :
0
1979
Venezuelan Military
# 188
Libya :
0
1979
Libyan Military
# 189
Vietnam :
0
1979
Vietnamese Military
# 190
Congo, Democratic Republic of the :
0
1979
Congolese Military
# 191
Samoa :
0
1979
Samoan Military
# 192
Kiribati :
0
1979
- Military
# 193
Aruba :
0
1979
Aruban Military
# 194
Zambia :
0
1979
Zambian Military
# 195
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
0
1979
Nevisian Military
Weighted average:
638.7
Historical countries, unions or other regions:
European Union
121
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 (1979) 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=1979
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