Death Toll in 2014’s Bloodiest Wars Sharply Up on Previous Year

2015-03-18T20:25:51-04:00

According to analysis of a variety of data sets, 2014 saw at least fourteen conflicts that killed more than 1000 people, compared to only ten in 2013.

Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan remained the three deadliest wars, unchanged from the previous year but with all three seeing a significant spike in fatalities

Nigeria was the fourth deadliest, its number of deaths almost tripling on the previous year as the conflict with militant group, Boko Haram, intensified.

“Assessing casualty figures in conflict is notoriously difficult and many of the figures we are looking at here a probably underestimates,” said PS21 Executive Director, Peter Apps. “The important thing, however, is that when you compare like with like data for 2014 and 2013, you get a very significant increase. That says something very concerning.”

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The body count from the top twenty deadliest wars in 2014 was more that 28% higher than in the previous year, research by the Project for the Study of the 21st Century (PS21) shows. Almost every ma...

Response by CW5 Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 18 at 2015 8:31 PM

2015-03-18T20:31:37-04:00

What it says to me, SSG Norman Lihou, is that I'm very glad we're extricating ourselves from Iraq and Afghanistan. Those combatants there and in the other countries on the list are likely going to continue killing each other. They don't need to spill American blood -- especially now that our leaders are saying that we are mission complete (or nearly so) "over there."