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Rwanda vs Uganda: Death rate in armed conflicts based on where they occurred

Rwanda
0.0069 deaths per 100,000 people
in 2025
Uganda
0.0039 deaths per 100,000 people
in 2025
Rwanda rank
51st
Uganda rank
52nd

Death rate in armed conflicts based on where they occurred over time

  • Rwanda
  • Uganda
02.5k5.0k7.5k10.0k12.5k198920072025

How they compare

Rwanda currently reports 0.0069 deaths per 100,000 people against 0.0039 deaths per 100,000 people in Uganda, a difference of 0.003 deaths per 100,000 people.

That makes Rwanda's figure about 1.8 times Uganda's.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 37 shared years of data; in 1989 it was Uganda ahead.

Rwanda ranks 51st and Uganda ranks 52nd of 192 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Death rate in armed conflicts based on where they occurred
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 combatants and civilians due to fighting in interstate, intrastate, extrasystemic, non-state conflicts, and one-sided violence that were ongoing that year.