Battle-related deaths (number of people)

Source: worldbank.org, 03.09.2025

Year: 2022

Flag Country Value Value change, % Rank
Afghanistan Afghanistan 917 -97.4% 12
Angola Angola 20 -4.76% 36
United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 3 38
Armenia Armenia 154 +1,440% 21
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan 154 +413% 21
Benin Benin 30 34
Burkina Faso Burkina Faso 2,003 +102% 6
Bangladesh Bangladesh 2 0% 39
Central African Republic Central African Republic 675 -25.5% 13
Cameroon Cameroon 406 -30.1% 16
Congo - Kinshasa Congo - Kinshasa 1,723 +68.9% 7
Congo - Brazzaville Congo - Brazzaville 3 38
Colombia Colombia 107 -5.31% 22
Egypt Egypt 231 +106% 19
Eritrea Eritrea 4 -84% 37
Ethiopia Ethiopia 163,208 +31% 1
Indonesia Indonesia 46 -9.8% 30
India India 310 -27.9% 18
Iraq Iraq 958 +12.6% 11
Israel Israel 84 -68.8% 24
Kenya Kenya 72 -4% 26
Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan 63 +57.5% 28
Mali Mali 1,440 +98.3% 9
Myanmar (Burma) Myanmar (Burma) 2,036 +97.5% 5
Mozambique Mozambique 378 -56.9% 17
Niger Niger 516 +12.4% 15
Nigeria Nigeria 1,535 -23.2% 8
Pakistan Pakistan 630 +51.4% 14
Philippines Philippines 207 -22.2% 20
Poland Poland 2 39
Russia Russia 65 +103% 27
Rwanda Rwanda 4 -78.9% 37
Sudan Sudan 54 +74.2% 29
Somalia Somalia 3,032 +39.5% 3
Syria Syria 966 -36.6% 10
Chad Chad 35 -92.8% 31
Togo Togo 34 32
Thailand Thailand 31 -18.4% 33
Tajikistan Tajikistan 87 +444% 23
Turkey Turkey 83 -36.6% 25
Uganda Uganda 25 35
Ukraine Ukraine 91,685 +43,979% 2
Yemen Yemen 2,917 -87.5% 4 

                    
# Install missing packages
import sys
import subprocess

def install(package):
subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", package])

# Required packages
for package in ['wbdata', 'country_converter']:
try:
__import__(package)
except ImportError:
install(package)

# Import libraries
import wbdata
import country_converter as coco
from datetime import datetime

# Define World Bank indicator code
dataset_code = 'VC.BTL.DETH'

# Download data from World Bank API
data = wbdata.get_dataframe({dataset_code: 'value'},
date=(datetime(1960, 1, 1), datetime.today()),
parse_dates=True,
keep_levels=True).reset_index()

# Extract year
data['year'] = data['date'].dt.year

# Convert country names to ISO codes using country_converter
cc = coco.CountryConverter()
data['iso2c'] = cc.convert(names=data['country'], to='ISO2', not_found=None)
data['iso3c'] = cc.convert(names=data['country'], to='ISO3', not_found=None)

# Filter out rows where ISO codes could not be matched — likely not real countries
data = data[data['iso2c'].notna() & data['iso3c'].notna()]

# Sort for calculation
data = data.sort_values(['iso3c', 'year'])

# Calculate YoY absolute and percent change
data['value_change'] = data.groupby('iso3c')['value'].diff()
data['value_change_percent'] = data.groupby('iso3c')['value'].pct_change() * 100

# Calculate ranks (higher GDP per capita = better rank)
data['rank'] = data.groupby('year')['value'].rank(ascending=False, method='dense')

# Calculate rank change from previous year
data['rank_change'] = data.groupby('iso3c')['rank'].diff()

# Select desired columns
final_df = data[['country', 'iso2c', 'iso3c', 'year', 'value',
'value_change', 'value_change_percent', 'rank', 'rank_change']].copy()

# Optional: Add labels as metadata (could be useful for export or UI)
column_labels = {
'country': 'Country name',
'iso2c': 'ISO 2-letter country code',
'iso3c': 'ISO 3-letter country code',
'year': 'Year',
'value': 'GDP per capita (current US$)',
'value_change': 'Year-over-Year change in value',
'value_change_percent': 'Year-over-Year percent change in value',
'rank': 'Country rank by GDP per capita (higher = richer)',
'rank_change': 'Change in rank from previous year'
}

# Display first few rows
print(final_df.head(10))

# Optional: Save to CSV
#final_df.to_csv("gdp_per_capita_cleaned.csv", index=False)
                    
                
                    
# Check and install required packages
required_packages <- c("WDI", "countrycode", "dplyr")

for (pkg in required_packages) {
  if (!requireNamespace(pkg, quietly = TRUE)) {
    install.packages(pkg)
  }
}

# Load the necessary libraries
library(WDI)
library(dplyr)
library(countrycode)

# Define the dataset code (World Bank indicator code)
dataset_code <- 'VC.BTL.DETH'

# Download data using WDI package
dat <- WDI(indicator = dataset_code)

# Filter only countries using 'is_country' from countrycode
# This uses iso2c to identify whether the entry is a recognized country
dat <- dat %>%
  filter(countrycode(iso2c, origin = 'iso2c', destination = 'country.name', warn = FALSE) %in%
           countrycode::codelist$country.name.en)

# Ensure dataset is ordered by country and year
dat <- dat %>%
  arrange(iso3c, year)

# Rename the dataset_code column to "value" for easier manipulation
dat <- dat %>%
  rename(value = !!dataset_code)

# Calculate year-over-year (YoY) change and percentage change
dat <- dat %>%
  group_by(iso3c) %>%
  mutate(
    value_change = value - lag(value),                              # Absolute change from previous year
    value_change_percent = 100 * (value - lag(value)) / lag(value) # Percent change from previous year
  ) %>%
  ungroup()

# Calculate rank by year (higher value => higher rank)
dat <- dat %>%
  group_by(year) %>%
  mutate(rank = dense_rank(desc(value))) %>% # Rank countries by descending value
  ungroup()

# Calculate rank change (positive = moved up, negative = moved down)
dat <- dat %>%
  group_by(iso3c) %>%
  mutate(rank_change = rank - lag(rank)) %>% # Change in rank compared to previous year
  ungroup()

# Select and reorder final columns
final_data <- dat %>%
  select(
    country,
    iso2c,
    iso3c,
    year,
    value,
    value_change,
    value_change_percent,
    rank,
    rank_change
  )

# Add labels (variable descriptions)
attr(final_data$country, "label") <- "Country name"
attr(final_data$iso2c, "label") <- "ISO 2-letter country code"
attr(final_data$iso3c, "label") <- "ISO 3-letter country code"
attr(final_data$year, "label") <- "Year"
attr(final_data$value, "label") <- "GDP per capita (current US$)"
attr(final_data$value_change, "label") <- "Year-over-Year change in value"
attr(final_data$value_change_percent, "label") <- "Year-over-Year percent change in value"
attr(final_data$rank, "label") <- "Country rank by GDP per capita (higher = richer)"
attr(final_data$rank_change, "label") <- "Change in rank from previous year"

# Print the first few rows of the final dataset
print(head(final_data, 10))