The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.
This list of ongoing armed conflicts identifies present-day conflicts and the death toll associated with each conflict. The criteria of inclusion are the following:
The 7 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 10,000 direct, violent deaths per year in battles between identified groups, in a current or past calendar year.[2]
Start of conflict |
Conflict | Continent | Location | Cumulative fatalities | 2022 fatalities | 2023 fatalities |
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1948 | Asia | Myanmar | 180,000–210,000[3][4] | 2,750[5]–20,206[6][7] | 12,353[6][8][9][10] | |
1948 | Asia | Israel Palestine Egypt[a] Lebanon[b] Syria[c] Iraq[d] |
40,000+[11] | 194[5]–255[6][12] | 12,865–13,865+[5][6][e][f][g][21] | |
2002 | Africa | Burkina Faso Mali Niger Benin Togo Algeria Tunisia Chad Ivory Coast Mauritania Ghana Nigeria Cameroon Morocco Libya |
54,000+ | 9,000[6][22][23] | 12,082[6][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] | |
2006 | North America | Mexico | 69,000[31][h] | 7,821[6][33]–14,254[5] | 6,234[6] | |
2014 | Europe | Russia Ukraine |
180,000–220,000+[34][35] | 82,637[5]–100,000+[36][37][38][39] | 26,732[6]–95,088+[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49] | |
2018 | Africa | Ethiopia | 177,000–600,000+[50][51][52] | 10,341[i][53][54]–109,600+[5][55][54] | 2,981[6][56][57][58] | |
2023 | War in Sudan | Africa | Sudan | 11,900+[59][6][60] | 0[5] | 11,900+[59][6][60][61] |
The 15 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct, violent deaths in a current or past calendar year.[2] Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.[62]
The 22 conflicts in the following list have caused at least 100, and fewer than 1,000, direct, violent deaths in a current or past calendar year.
The 13 conflicts in the following list have caused fewer than 100 direct, violent deaths in a current or past calendar year.
Rank | 2018[o] | 2019[p] | 2020[p] | 2021[p] | 2022 | |||||
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Country | Deaths | Country | Deaths | Country | Deaths | Country | Deaths | Country | Deaths | |
1 | Afghanistan | 35,941 | Afghanistan | 41,735 | Mexico | 34,512[q] | / Afghanistan | 42,223 | Ethiopia | 102,918 |
2 | Mexico | 33,341[q][236] | Mexico | 35,588[q] | Afghanistan | 30,974 | Yemen | 31,048 | Ukraine | 82,637 |
3 | Yemen | 22,201 | Yemen | 16,050 | Yemen | 19,561 | Ethiopia | 22,800 | Myanmar | 20,206 |
4 | Syria | 20,130 | Syria | 11,244 | Syria | 7,620 | Mexico | 18,811[q] | Mexico | 14,254[q] |
5 | Iraq | 4,920 | Saudi Arabia | 4,832 | Nigeria | 7,172 | Myanmar | 11,114 | Yemen | 7,133 |
6 | Nigeria | 4,850 | Somalia | 2,604 | DR Congo | 6,162 | Nigeria | 9,687 | Somalia | 6,484 |
7 | Somalia | 3,862 | Libya | 2,200+ | Azerbaijan/ Artsakh |
6,110 | DR Congo | 6,283 | DR Congo | 6,254 |
8 | Saudi Arabia | 3,509 | Iraq | 1,850+ | Somalia | 2,950 | Syria | 5,828 | Syria | 5,639 |
9 | DR Congo | 1,757 | Mali | 734+ | Mali | 2,734 | Somalia | 3,532 | Mali | 4,793 |
10 | Mali | 1,285 | Egypt | 529+ | Iraq | 2,436 | Iraq | 2,605 | Burkina Faso | 4,700 |
11 | South Sudan | 1,166 | South Sudan | 519 | Burkina Faso | 2,268 | Burkina Faso | 2,358 | Iraq | 4,181 |
12 | India | 988[237] | India | ~403 | South Sudan | 2,245 | South Sudan | 1,986 | Afghanistan | 3,930 |
13 | Cameroon | 945 | DR Congo | 302+ | Ethiopia | 1,813 | Mali | 1,911 | Nigeria | 3,780 |
14 | Ethiopia | 886 | Colombia | 238 | Mozambique | 1,696 | CAR | 1,704 | Niger | 3,000 |
15 | CAR | 842 | Cameroon | 234 | Libya | 1,484 | Sudan | 1,584 | Colombia | 2,276 |
16 | Pakistan | 736[238] | Pakistan | 206 | Cameroon | 1,447 | Niger | 1,454 | South Sudan | 1,731 |
17 | Libya | 727 | Thailand | 163 | Philippines | 1,316 | Colombia | 1,399 | Sudan | 1,327 |
18 | Colombia | 709 | Nigeria | 152 | India | 783 | Mozambique | 1,194 | Cameroon | 943 |
19 | Sudan | 600 | Ukraine | 119 | Colombia | 765 | Cameroon | 790 | Mozambique | 916 |
20 | Turkey | 530 | Palestine | 100 | Myanmar | 650 | Palestine | 484 | Pakistan | 900 |
Independent scholars, based at Ghent University in Belgium, suggest that the death toll in Tigray is now between 385,000 and 600,000.
As our estimate of the civilian deaths in the Tigray war is regularly mentioned in the media, it seems important to share our evolving understanding and updated (lower) number of civilian deaths as a result of the Tigray war and blockade. We concluded that the IPC/FEWS categorization, on which our Tigray statistics are mainly based, overestimates hunger mortality. Along with developing information on the ground, this would point to a total number of civilian deaths ranging from 162,000 to 378,000.
A report on Dec. 30 by a committee of relief organizations and officials in Tigray said the Eritrean forces and their Amhara allies have killed more than 3,700 civilians since the peace agreement was signed.
between 700,000 and 800,000 people [overall] have already lost their lives. […] '100,000 have probably died in this third phase'
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See chart "Number of deaths" from 1999
See chart "Number of deaths" from 2018