Congo vs Mali: Death rate in armed conflicts

Congo
4.47 deaths per 100,000 people
in 2025
Mali
2.51 deaths per 100,000 people
in 2025
Congo rank
5th
Mali rank
7th

Death rate in armed conflicts over time

  • Congo
  • Mali
051015198920072025

How they compare

Congo currently reports 4.47 deaths per 100,000 people against 2.51 deaths per 100,000 people in Mali, a difference of 1.96 deaths per 100,000 people.

That makes Congo's figure about 1.8 times Mali's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 37 shared years of data; in 1989 it was Mali ahead.

Congo ranks 5th and Mali ranks 7th of 196 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Death rate in armed conflicts
Unit
deaths per 100,000 people
Source
Uppsala Conflict Data Program (2026); geoBoundaries (2023); Population based on various sources (2024) – with minor processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
196 places, 7,252 data points, 1989–2025
Last refreshed

The best estimate of the number of deaths of civilians from one-sided violence that was ongoing that year.