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Last year, 237,000 people died in armed conflicts around the world. That is almost double the number of the previous year and the highest number since the genocide in Rwanda in 1994.
Although major conflicts such as Yemen and Afghanistan were scaled down, there was an increase of 97 percent compared to the previous year, shows a new report from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program at Uppsala University. It is due to the wars in Ethiopia and Ukraine, where far more people were killed than in the entire world in the previous year.
The number of armed conflicts in which states fight against each other or against rebel groups is at a historically high level. The number of non-state conflicts, where rebel groups or other armed groups fight each other, is also at a record high, according to the report published in the Journal of Peace Research.