How common is war and peace between and within countries? How has this changed? Our new topic page on war and peace @OurWorldInData visualizes major data sources and summarizes both key insights and the data. ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace A thread on what the page has in store:
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Since 1800, more than 37 million people worldwide have died while actively fighting in wars. But there are very large differences in how deadly different wars are. Most death tolls are relatively small, a few are large, and very few are extremely large.