1,000+ deaths per year

Conflicts in the following list are currently causing at least 1,000 violent deaths per year, a categorization used by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program[1] and recognised by the United Nations.[2][3] The UN also use the term "low intensity conflict," which can overlap with the 1,000 violent deaths per year categorisation.[4]
Start of conflict Cumulative fatalities Fatalities in 2011

War/conflict

Location

1964

Colombian Armed Conflict

Colombia

150,000 [5] 200,000

5,667+

[6]

1978

Afghan civil war

Afghanistan

3,000,000+

[7]

8,938+

[8]

1991

Somali Civil War

Somalia

300,000 [10] 400,000

[9]

1,400+

[11]

2003

Insurgency in Iraq

Iraq

109,792 [13] 1,120,000

[7][12]

5,489

[14]

2004

War in North-West Pakistan

Pakistan

38,800

[15]

6,142

[15]

2006

Mexican Drug War

Mexico

60,420+

[16]

19,396

[17]

2009

Sudanese nomadic conflicts

Sudan Sudan

South

5,641

[18][19]

3,141+

[19]

2011

Sudan internal conflict

Sudan and Sudan

South

1,500+

[20]

1,500+

[20]

2011

Yemeni revolution

Yemen

1,784-1,870

[21]

1,784-1,870

2011

Syrian uprising

Syria

3,673

[22]

9,000+

[23]

5,000

[24]

Start of conflict

War/conflict

Location

Cumulative fatalities

Fatalities in 2011

2012

South SudanSudan border conflict

South Sudan and

Sudan

278-1,538

278-1,538