Wars Since 1816

Data behind the Economist's article: https://www.economist.com/interactive/international/2022/10/24/vladimir-putin-is-dragging-the-world-back-to-a-bloodier-time

Sources:

• The Correlates of War Project
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  - Zeev Maoz, Paul L. Johnson, Jasper Kaplan, Fiona Ogunkoya, and Aaron Shreve 2019. The Dyadic Militarized Interstate Disputes (MIDs) Dataset Version 3.0: Logic, Characteristics, and Comparisons to Alternative Datasets, Journal of Conflict Resolution (forthcoming).
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  - Bezerra, P., & Braithwaite, A. 2019. Codebook for the Militarized Interstate Dispute Location (MIDLOC-A/I) Dataset, v2.1.
  - Tir, Jaroslav, Philip Schafer, Paul Diehl, and Gary Goertz. 1998. “Territorial Changes, 1816-1996: Procedures and Data”, Conflict Management and Peace Science 16:89-97.
• Pettersson, Therese, Shawn Davis, Amber Deniz, Garoun Engström, Nanar Hawach, Stina Högbladh, Margareta Sollenberg & Magnus Öberg (2021). Organized violence 1989-2020, with a special emphasis on Syria. Journal of Peace Research 58(4).; Bethany Lacina & and Nils Petter Gleditsch, 2005. „Monitoring Trends in Global Combat: A New Dataset of Battle Deaths‟, European Journal of Population 21(2–3): 145–116.
• Our World In Data
• World Bank
• Encyclopedia Britannica

We thank Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Dan Altman, Paul F. Diehl, and Jaroslav Tir for providing useful context on these numbers.

See also: https://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets/, https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace

Suggested citation
The Economist and Solstad, S. (corresponding author), 2022. Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time. [online] The Economist. Available at: https://www.economist.com/interactive/international/2022/10/24/vladimir-putin-is-dragging-the-world-back-to-a-bloodier-time [Published October 25th, 2022].