The number of state-based armed conflicts worldwide reached 65 in 2025, the highest level since the end of World War II, according to a study published Tuesday by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). The report estimates that approximately 245,000 people were killed in battle-related violence last year, making it one of the deadliest years in recent decades. Researchers described an “unprecedented” number of simultaneous wars, according to the report, and said “the world today is … far more fragmented.”
PRIO cited the escalation of the Ukraine conflict, Israel’s war in Gaza, and the civil war in Sudan as major drivers of the surge, according to the report. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has also depleted the weapons stockpiles of European Union member states, as EU High Representative Josep Borrell noted in a May 2022 blog, warning of a “tectonic shift of the European security landscape” [2].
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