About this Dataset

History Of War (Brecke, 1999)

This dataset provides information on armed conflicts, using data from Peter Brecke's Conflict Catalog.

The data includes information on the number of ongoing and new conflicts, the number of ongoing and new conflict types, as well as the number of deaths in ongoing conflicts and conflict types.

Deaths of combatants and civilians due to fighting, disease, and starvation are included.

We change the world regions in the data. The list belows lists these, along with the codes of the countries in them. Find the complete list of country codes at https://correlatesofwar.org/wp-content/uploads/states2016.csv.

Africa (from East & South Africa, North Africa, and West & Central Africa): 402-626
Americas (from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean and South America): 2-165
Asia and Oceania (from Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia): 700-990
Europe (from Eastern Europe and Western Europe): 200-395, 640
Middle East (from Arabian Peninsula and Iran west to Syria): 630, 645-698

You can find more information about the data in our article: [To be published]

Tables

Brecke

@owid.brecke.owid_brecke

76.92 kB
10,818 rows
11 columns

CREATE TABLE owid_brecke (
  "year" INTEGER,
  "region" VARCHAR,
  "conflict_type" VARCHAR,
  "number_ongoing_conflicts" INTEGER,
  "number_deaths_ongoing_conflicts" UINTEGER,
  "number_new_conflicts" INTEGER,
  "number_ongoing_conflicts_per_country" FLOAT,
  "number_ongoing_conflicts_per_country_pair" FLOAT,
  "number_new_conflicts_per_country" FLOAT,
  "number_new_conflicts_per_country_pair" FLOAT,
  "number_deaths_ongoing_conflicts_per_capita" FLOAT
);