List of armed conflicts in 2020
The following is a list of armed conflicts with victims in 2020.
List guidelines
Listed are the armed conflicts having done globally at least 100 victims and at least 1 victim during the year 2020.
10,000+ deaths in 2020
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 10,000 direct violent deaths in 2020.
Start of conflict | Conflict | Continent | Location | Fatalities in 2020 |
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1978 | Afghanistan conflict | Asia | Afghanistan | 19,444[1][2][3][4] |
2011 | Yemeni Crisis | Asia | Yemen Saudi Arabia |
19,056[lower-alpha 1][1][5] |
1,000–9,999 deaths in 2020
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1,000 and fewer than 10,000 direct violent deaths in 2020.
Conflicts causing at least 1,000 deaths in one calendar year are considered wars by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program.[6]
100–999 deaths in 2020
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 100 and fewer than 1,000 direct violent deaths in 2020.
Fewer than 100 deaths in 2020
Conflicts in the following list have caused at least 1 and fewer than 100 direct violent deaths in 2020.
See also
- Lists of wars in World (by date, region, type of conflict)
- Lists of wars and conflict by region
- List of terrorist incidents
- List of number of conflicts per year
- List of most lethal battles in world history
- Africa:
- Americas:
- Asia:
- List of conflicts in Asia
- List of conflicts in the Near East
- List of conflicts in the Middle East
- Europe:
- List of conflicts in Europe
- Post-Cold War European conflicts
- List of conflicts in Europe
- Others :
- Ongoing conflicts in World:
- List of ongoing armed conflicts
- List of wars 2011–present
- Ongoing military conflicts
- Maps of ongoing conflicts
References
Notes
- See Casualties in 2020
- See Casualties in 2020
- See [73][74][75]
- See Casualties in 2020
- See Casualties in 2020
- See Casualties in 2020
- See Casualties in 2020
- 18,991 in Yemen, 65 in Saudi Arabia
- 313 in India, 5 in Pakistan
- 280 in Pakistan, 40 in Iran
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