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Rate of wars

The number of wars divided by the number of all states. This accounts for the changing number of states over time. Included are interstate and civil wars that were ongoing that year.

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Our World in Data
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21 Sept 2023
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17 Sept 2026
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Jason Lyall, Project Mars (2020); Butcher and Griffiths (2020)

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