Organised violence

UCDP deaths from organised violence: UCDP's own annual estimate of deaths from organised violence within each country's borders, from the reviewed Country-Year Dataset on Organized Violence within Country Borders, with UCDP's low and high estimates beside every best estimate and the total attributed to UCDP's three categories: state-based conflict, non-state conflict and one-sided violence. The figures are annual and arrive about half a year after the year they cover, so this section is quiet for most of the year and then publishes a year's worth at once. These are estimates coded by researchers from news reports and other published sources, not a register of deaths. UCDP describes itself as highly conservative in counting fatalities and counts only violence tied to a conflict or actor that has at some point reached its threshold of 25 deaths in a calendar year, so every figure is best read as a floor, and country-years below that threshold are not published at all: a small total from this dataset does not mean what a reader would take it to mean. No brief names a party to the violence. UCDP publishes the names of the governments and groups involved, the deaths it attributes to each, and separate counts of civilians killed by governments and by armed groups; none of that is read here. UCDP's monthly preliminary event feed is not read either: its records are unreviewed by UCDP's own description, and an automatic account of who killed whom, where and when is reporting on disputed events that this service leaves to human editors. A comparison is only ever a country with its own preceding year, from the same dataset release, given as a difference in deaths and never as a percentage. UCDP revises earlier years in each release, so the previous year's figure on a brief is UCDP's current figure, not the one it published a year earlier.