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Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) - the world's leading resource on peace and conflict data.

Uppsala University ucdp.uu.se Joined February 2011

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UCDP @UCDP Aug 21, 2025

Israeli military data shows 83% of deaths in Gaza were civilians.
UCDP's Therese Pettersson calls this "unusually high", comparable to Rwanda & Mariupol.
Guardian piece highlights civilian suffering & challenges in assessing wartime casualty data theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…

UCDP @UCDP Jul 24, 2025

A new article by UCDP's Magnus Öberg and Mert Can Yilmaz in Research & Politics reveals that differences between major conflict datasets aren't driven by sourcing strategies or inclusion thresholds as previously claimed.
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Read the article: doi.org/10.1177/205316…

journals.sagepub.com Measurement issues in conflict event data: Addressing some misconceptions about what drives... Clionadh Raleigh, Roudabeh Kishi, and Andrew Linke recently compared their own Armed Conflict Location and Events Dataset (ACLED) to three other conflict event ...

UCDP @UCDP Jun 23, 2025

Want to know more about conflict deaths across the world? @OurWorldInData has now updated their visuals with the latest data from UCDP. ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace

UCDP @UCDP Jun 19, 2025

The war in Gaza features one of the highest civilian-to-combatant death ratios of any modern conflict. UCDP:s Mert Can Yilmaz elaborates on this in Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish) dn.se/varlden/svensk…

www.dn.se Svensk kartläggning: Minst 29 000 civila har dödats i Gazakriget Sedan den 7 oktober 2023 har minst 29 000 civila dödats i väpnade attacker i Israel och de ockuperade palestinska områdena.

UCDP @UCDP Jun 17, 2025

Since 2010, the number of conflicts involving states has almost doubled, and the total number of deaths has increased five-fold. Read more about the new UCDP data in this @JPR_journal open access article:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

journals.sagepub.com Organized violence 1989–2024, and the challenges of identifying civilian victims - Shawn Davies,... This article examines global trends in organized violence based on new data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP). In 2024, the number of state-based ar...