Armed violence reduction

Key numbers on armed violence from the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development

• More than 740,000 people have died directly or indirectly from armed violence - both conflict and criminal violence - every year in recent years.
• More than 540,000 of these deaths are violent, with the vast majority occurring in non-conflict settings.
• At least 200,000 people - and perhaps many thousands more - have died each year in conflict zones from non-violent causes that resulted from the effects of war on populations.
• Between 2004 and 2007, at least 208,300 violent deaths were recorded in armed conflicts - an average of 52,000 people killed per year. This is a conservative estimate including only recorded deaths: the real total may be much higher.
• The annual economic cost of armed violence in non-conflict settings, in terms of lost productivity due to violent deaths, is USD 95 billion and could reach as high as USD 163 billion - 0.14 percent of the annual global GDP.