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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
Iraq :
130,609.2
1988
Iraqi Military
# 2
Afghanistan :
30,000
1988
Afghan Military
# 3
Ethiopia :
15,615
1988
Ethiopian Military
# 4
Somalia :
11,666
1988
Somali Military
# 5
Burma :
8,447.82
1988
Burmese Military
# 6
Angola :
5,883
1988
Angolan Military
# 7
Indonesia :
5,358
1988
Indonesian Military
# 8
Philippines :
4,451.11
1988
Philippine Military
# 9
Sudan :
4,111
1988
Sudanese Military
# 10
India :
3,041.77
1988
Indian Military
# 11
Mozambique :
3,000
1988
Mozambican Military
# 12
Sri Lanka :
3,000
1988
Sri Lankan Military
# 13
Nicaragua :
2,900
1988
Nicaraguan Military
# 14
South Africa :
1,436.69
1988
South African Military
# 15
Peru :
1,233
1988
Peruvian Military
# 16
Colombia :
1,098
1988
Colombian Military
# 17
El Salvador :
1,000
1988
Salvadoran Military
# 18
Uganda :
1,000
1988
Ugandan Military
# 19
Guatemala :
500
1988
Guatemalan Military
# 20
Israel :
322
1988
Israeli Military
# 21
Cambodia :
200
1988
Cambodian Military
# 22
Turkey :
173
1988
Turkish Military
# 23
United Kingdom :
104
1988
British Military
# 24
Bangladesh :
72
1988
Bangladeshi Military
# 25
Suriname :
67
1988
Surinamese Military
# 26
Brazil :
0
1988
Brazilian Military
# 27
Namibia :
0
1988
Namibian Military
# 28
Barbados :
0
1988
Barbadian Military
# 29
Madagascar :
0
1988
Malagasy Military
# 30
Brunei :
0
1988
Bruneian Military
# 31
Bolivia :
0
1988
Bolivian Military
# 32
Bhutan :
0
1988
Bhutanese Military
# 33
Virgin Islands :
0
1988
Virgin Islander Military
# 34
Botswana :
0
1988
Motswana -Batswana Military
# 35
Mongolia :
0
1988
Mongolian Military
# 36
Central African Republic :
0
1988
Central African Military
# 37
New Zealand :
0
1988
New Zealand Military
# 38
Togo :
0
1988
Togolese Military
# 39
Singapore :
0
1988
Singapore Military
# 40
Canada :
0
1988
Canadian Military
# 41
Switzerland :
0
1988
Swiss Military
# 42
Belarus :
0
1988
Belarusian Military
# 43
Chile :
0
1988
Chilean Military
# 44
Luxembourg :
0
1988
Luxembourg Military
# 45
China :
0
1988
Chinese Military
# 46
Macedonia, Republic of :
0
1988
Macedonian Military
# 47
Côte d'Ivoire :
0
1988
Ivoirian Military
# 48
Mauritius :
0
1988
Mauritian Military
# 49
Cameroon :
0
1988
Cameroonian Military
# 50
Antigua and Barbuda :
0
1988
Barbudan Military
# 51
Congo, Republic of the :
0
1988
Congolese Military
# 52
American Samoa :
0
1988
American Samoan Military
# 53
Bahamas, The :
0
1988
Bahamian Military
# 54
Rwanda :
0
1988
Rwandan Military
# 55
Comoros :
0
1988
Comoran Military
# 56
San Marino :
0
1988
Sammarinese Military
# 57
Cape Verde :
0
1988
Cape Verdean Military
# 58
Sweden :
0
1988
Swedish Military
# 59
Costa Rica :
0
1988
Costa Rican Military
# 60
East Timor :
0
1988
Timorese Military
# 61
Cuba :
0
1988
Cuban Military
# 62
United States :
0
1988
American Military
# 63
Cayman Islands :
0
1988
Caymanian Military
# 64
Bosnia and Herzegovina :
0
1988
Herzegovinian Military
# 65
Cyprus :
0
1988
Cypriot Military
# 66
Monaco :
0
1988
Monegasque Military
# 67
Czech Republic :
0
1988
Czech Military
# 68
Mexico :
0
1988
Mexican Military
# 69
Germany :
0
1988
German Military
# 70
Malta :
0
1988
Maltese Military
# 71
Djibouti :
0
1988
Djiboutian Military
# 72
Australia :
0
1988
Australian Military
# 73
Dominica :
0
1988
Dominican Military
# 74
Malaysia :
0
1988
Malaysian Military
# 75
Denmark :
0
1988
Danish Military
# 76
Niger :
0
1988
Nigerien Military
# 77
Dominican Republic :
0
1988
Dominican Military
# 78
Norway :
0
1988
Norwegian Military
# 79
Algeria :
0
1988
Algerian Military
# 80
Pakistan :
0
1988
Pakistani Military
# 81
Ecuador :
0
1988
Ecuadorian Military
# 82
Palau :
0
1988
Palauan Military
# 83
Eritrea :
0
1988
Eritrean Military
# 84
Romania :
0
1988
Romanian Military
# 85
Spain :
0
1988
Spanish Military
# 86
Argentina :
0
1988
Argentine Military
# 87
Estonia :
0
1988
Estonian Military
# 88
Sierra Leone :
0
1988
Sierra Leonean Military
# 89
Bahrain :
0
1988
Bahraini Military
# 90
Serbia and Montenegro :
0
1988
Serbian Military
# 91
Bermuda :
0
1988
Bermudian Military
# 92
Slovakia :
0
1988
Slovak Military
# 93
Finland :
0
1988
Finnish Military
# 94
Seychelles :
0
1988
Seychellois Military
# 95
Fiji :
0
1988
Fijian Military
# 96
Tajikistan :
0
1988
Tajikistani Military
# 97
France :
0
1988
French Military
# 98
Trinidad and Tobago :
0
1988
Tobagonian Military
# 99
Faroe Islands :
0
1988
Faroese Military
# 100
Ukraine :
0
1988
Ukrainian Military
# 101
Gabon :
0
1988
Gabonese Military
# 102
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines :
0
1988
Saint Vincentian Military
# 103
Belize :
0
1988
Belizean Military
# 104
Vanuatu :
0
1988
- Military
# 105
Georgia :
0
1988
Georgian Military
# 106
Lithuania :
0
1988
Lithuanian Military
# 107
Ghana :
0
1988
Ghanaian Military
# 108
Latvia :
0
1988
Latvian Military
# 109
Guinea :
0
1988
Guinean Military
# 110
Moldova :
0
1988
Moldovan Military
# 111
Gambia, The :
0
1988
Gambian Military
# 112
Maldives :
0
1988
Maldivian Military
# 113
Guinea-Bissau :
0
1988
Guinean Military
# 114
Marshall Islands :
0
1988
Marshallese Military
# 115
Equatorial Guinea :
0
1988
Equatorial Guinean Military
# 116
Mali :
0
1988
Malian Military
# 117
Greece :
0
1988
Greek Military
# 118
Austria :
0
1988
Austrian Military
# 119
Grenada :
0
1988
Grenadian Military
# 120
Northern Mariana Islands :
0
1988
NA Military
# 121
Greenland :
0
1988
Greenlandic Military
# 122
Mauritania :
0
1988
Mauritanian Military
# 123
Bulgaria :
0
1988
Bulgarian Military
# 124
Malawi :
0
1988
Malawian Military
# 125
Guam :
0
1988
Guamanian Military
# 126
Mayotte :
0
1988
Mahoran Military
# 127
Guyana :
0
1988
Guyanese Military
# 128
New Caledonia :
0
1988
New Caledonian Military
# 129
Honduras :
0
1988
Honduran Military
# 130
Nigeria :
0
1988
Nigerian Military
# 131
Croatia :
0
1988
Croatian Military
# 132
Netherlands :
0
1988
Dutch Military
# 133
Haiti :
0
1988
Haitian Military
# 134
Nepal :
0
1988
Nepalese Military
# 135
Hungary :
0
1988
Hungarian Military
# 136
Oman :
0
1988
Omani Military
# 137
Poland :
0
1988
Polish Military
# 138
Panama :
0
1988
Panamanian Military
# 139
Portugal :
0
1988
Portuguese Military
# 140
Armenia :
0
1988
Armenian Military
# 141
French Polynesia :
0
1988
French Polynesian Military
# 142
Papua New Guinea :
0
1988
Papua New Guinean Military
# 143
Man, Isle of :
0
1988
Manx Military
# 144
Puerto Rico :
0
1988
Puerto Rican Military
# 145
Burkina Faso :
0
1988
Burkinabe Military
# 146
Paraguay :
0
1988
Paraguayan Military
# 147
Ireland :
0
1988
Irish Military
# 148
Qatar :
0
1988
Qatari Military
# 149
Benin :
0
1988
Beninese Military
# 150
Russia :
0
1988
Russian Military
# 151
Iceland :
0
1988
Icelandic Military
# 152
Saudi Arabia :
0
1988
Saudi Military
# 153
Belgium :
0
1988
Belgian Military
# 154
Senegal :
0
1988
Senegalese Military
# 155
Italy :
0
1988
Italian Military
# 156
Solomon Islands :
0
1988
Solomon Islander Military
# 157
Jamaica :
0
1988
Jamaican Military
# 158
United Arab Emirates :
0
1988
Emirati Military
# 159
Jordan :
0
1988
Jordanian Military
# 160
Netherlands Antilles :
0
1988
Dutch Antillean Military
# 161
Japan :
0
1988
Japanese Military
# 162
São Tomé and Príncipe :
0
1988
Sao Tomean Military
# 163
Kazakhstan :
0
1988
Kazakhstani Military
# 164
Kenya :
0
1988
Kenyan Military
# 165
Slovenia :
0
1988
Slovenian Military
# 166
Kyrgyzstan :
0
1988
Kyrgyzstani Military
# 167
Swaziland :
0
1988
Swazi Military
# 168
Burundi :
0
1988
Burundian Military
# 169
Syria :
0
1988
Syrian Military
# 170
Zambia :
0
1988
Zambian Military
# 171
Thailand :
0
1988
Thai Military
# 172
Aruba :
0
1988
Aruban Military
# 173
Turkmenistan :
0
1988
Turkmen Military
# 174
Kuwait :
0
1988
Kuwaiti Military
# 175
Tonga :
0
1988
Tongan Military
# 176
Tanzania :
0
1988
Tanzanian Military
# 177
Tunisia :
0
1988
Tunisian Military
# 178
Laos :
0
1988
Lao Military
# 179
Liberia :
0
1988
Liberian Military
# 180
Albania :
0
1988
Albanian Military
# 181
Libya :
0
1988
Libyan Military
# 182
Uruguay :
0
1988
Uruguayan Military
# 183
Saint Lucia :
0
1988
Saint Lucian Military
# 184
Uzbekistan :
0
1988
Uzbekistani Military
# 185
Liechtenstein :
0
1988
Liechtenstein Military
# 186
Venezuela :
0
1988
Venezuelan Military
# 187
Azerbaijan :
0
1988
Azerbaijani Military
# 188
Vietnam :
0
1988
Vietnamese Military
# 189
Lesotho :
0
1988
Basotho Military
# 190
Samoa :
0
1988
Samoan Military
# 191
Kiribati :
0
1988
- Military
# 192
Congo, Democratic Republic of the :
0
1988
Congolese Military
# 193
Saint Kitts and Nevis :
0
1988
Nevisian Military
# 194
Zimbabwe :
0
1988
Zimbabwean Military
Weighted average:
1,206.6
Historical countries, unions or other regions:
European Union
104
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 (1988) 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=1988
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