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American Civil War: 0.6–1 million [87] [88] 1861–1865 United States vs. Confederate States: North America Mozambican Civil War: 0.5–1 million [89] [90] 1977–1992 People's Republic of Mozambique, later Republic of Mozambique, and allies vs. RENAMO and allies Mozambique First Sudanese Civil War: 0.5–1 million [91] [92] 1955–1972
The under-five mortality rate (U5MR) is the number of deaths of infants and children under five years old per 1000 live births. The under-five mortality rate for the world is 39 deaths according to the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO). 5.3 million children under age five died in 2018, 14,722 every day. [1] [2] [3]
Save the Children: Children's Index Rank 7 164 2011 [7] Mothers' Index Rank 4 178 2014 [8] Women's Index Rank 5 164 2011 [7] Transparency International: Corruption Perceptions Index: 19 180 2023 [9] United Nations Development Programme: Human Development Index: 3 191 2021 [10] Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index: 1 156 2021 [10]
The regions and subregions in the table are based on the United Nations geoscheme since the table sources are United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reports. The U.N. recognizes that variability in the quality and integrity of data provided by certain countries may minimize country murder rates.
25% to 80% of Romani people in Europe killed Polish Operation of the NKVD: Soviet Union: 1937 1938 111,091 [231] 250,000 [232] The Polish Operation of the NKVD in 1937–1938 was an anti-Polish mass-ethnic cleansing operation of the NKVD carried out in the Soviet Union against Poles (labeled by the Soviets as "agents") during the period of the ...
One American man is dead, and an American woman is injured in Iceland following a collapse of the Breiðamerkurjökull ice cave, Iceland’s public broadcaster RUV said Monday.
Globally, the civilian casualty ratio often hovers around 50%. It is sometimes stated that 90% of victims of modern wars are civilians, [13] but that is a myth. [2] [4]In 1989, William Eckhardt studied casualties of conflicts from 1700 to 1987 and found that "the civilian percentage share of war-related deaths remained at about 50% from century to century."
A mass shooting at an adult educational facility in Sweden on Tuesday was the deadliest such incident in the country's history, with 11 people killed, including the alleged shooter, law ...