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Wars and violent conflicts

Indicator
Conflict involvement as primary party -
Conflict involvement as supporting party -
Number of victims of war as per 100,000 inhabitants
Number of violent conflicts and wars between -2017
Child soldiers in conflicts
Victims of sexual violence in wars after 1946 -
Number of homicides as per 100,000 inhabitants
Number of robberies as per 100,000 inhabitants
Death penalty
Torture
Index value Political Terror Scale
Index value Physical Integrity Rights
Index value political system
Human Development Index
Index value Gini Coefficient
Political participation
Number of politically active ethnic groups (2017)
Number of all ethnic groups (2017)
Ratio of politically active to total number of ethnic groups (2017)
Contested territories
Sources:
  • Amnesty International (2018)
  • Bastick et. al (2007)
  • CIRI (2014)
  • CSP (2018)
  • ETH (2018)
  • HKS & PRIO (2016)
  • Natural Earth & GAUL (2016)
  • PTS (2017)
  • Sonderbeauftragter des UN-Generalsekretärs für Kinder und Gewaltkonflikte (2018)
  • UCDP (2018)
  • UCDP/PRIO (2018)
  • UN-Sicherheitsrat (2018)
  • UNDP (2018)
  • UNODC (2017)
  • World Bank (2018)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Peace and demobilisation

Indicator
Times of Peace ( - ) [%]
Current UN missions
Peace missions of other actors
Number of German personnel in missions
Personnel made available for UN operations
Number of Blue Helmets per 10,000 inhabitants
Current DDR programmes
DDR programmes since 1990
Number of demobilised combatants
Sources:
  • AU (2016)
  • Bundeswehr (2018)
  • CIC (2013)
  • EAD/EEAS (2018)
  • IISS
  • NATO (2018)
  • UCDP/PRIO (2018)
  • UN (2016)
  • UN DPA (2018)
  • UN DPKO (2018)
  • UNDP
  • World Bank (2018)
  • ZIF (2018)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Military capacities and means

Indicator
Military expenditures in billion
Share of military expenditures in GDP [%]
Comparison military expentitures with social spending [%]
Military personnel
Reservists
Number of military personnel per 10,000 inhabitants
Number of reservists per 10,000 inhabitants
Number of military personnel in total incl. reservists per doctor
Number of military personnel in total incl. reservists per teacher
Number of heavy weapons systems
Number of heavy weapons systems per 10,000 inhabitants
Index value level of militarisation 1990
Index value level of militarisation
Trends in militarisation 1990-2017
Recipient countries of German military equipment [EUR]
Global arms exports [Mio. US$]
Global arms imports [Mio. US$]
Sources:
  • BICC (2018)
  • BMWI (2016)
  • IISS (2018)
  • SIPRI (2017)
  • SIPRI (2018)
  • UNSECO (2017)
  • WHO (2016)
  • World Bank (2016)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Natural resources and conflicts

Indicator
Oil production [in tousand barrels/day] (2016)
Share of global oil production [%] (2016)
Gas production [Billion m³] (2016)
Share of global gas production [%] (2016)
Diamond mining [in thousand carats] (2017)
Share of global diamond mining [%] (2017)
Mining of selected mineral resources (2016)
Cultivation of cocoa tree
Cultivation of oil palm
Export of tropical woods
Cocaanbau
Opiumanbau
Cannabisanbau
Ressource conflict intensity (2017)
Share of conflict resources of total imports [%]
Share of oil and gas of total imports [%]
Share of diamonds of total imports [%]
Share of agricultural resources of total imports [%]
Share of conflict resources of total exports [%]
Share of oil and gas of total exports [%]
Share of diamonds of total exports [%]
Share of agricultural resources of total exports [%]
Resource dependency
Resource Governance Index
Member of Kimberley
Member of FLEGT
Member of EITI
Corruption Index
Sources:
  • BICC (2006)
  • BMNT (2018)
  • EIA (2018)
  • EITI (2018)
  • FAO (2017)
  • FLEGT (2018)
  • HIIK (2018)
  • ITTO (2018)
  • Kimberley (2018)
  • Transparency International (2018)
  • UN Comtrade (2018)
  • UNODC (2018)
  • WTO (2018)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Conventional Weapons

Indicator
Main exporting country
Heavy weapons systems from Germany 2004-2016 [€]
Number of battle tanks
Number of submarines
Number of combat aircraft
MP2/MP2A1 (UZI)
AK 47 (Kalashnikov and ist variants )
G3
Number of civilian SALW as per 100 inhabitants
German small arms exports 2006–2016 [€]
Small arms exports [$]
Small arms imports [$]
Mine contamination
Mine production
Mine stockpiling
Member of the Mine Ban Treaty
Cluster munitions contamination
Cluster munitions production
Cluster munitions stockpiling
Member of the convention on Cluster Munitions
Victims of landmines and cluster munitions
Sources:
  • BICC (2016)
  • Bundeswehr (2016)
  • CMC (2018)
  • EU (2018)
  • ICBL (2018)
  • IISS (2017)
  • LCMM (2017)
  • SAS (2018)
  • UN Comtrade (2018)
  • UNODA (2017)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Weapons of mass destruction

Indicator
Means of delivery
Nuclear power
Current possession of nuclear weapons
Possession of nuclear weapons peak
Nuclear tests
Uran production [in tons]
Reactors in total
Nuclear reactors
Research reactors
Uranium enrichment plants
Uranium reprocessing plants
HEU [in kilograms]
Plutonium [in tons]
Risk of natural catastrophe index
Total people living within 30 km [in mio.]
Total people living within 150 km [in mio.]
Biological warfare agents
Number of events 1970-2017
Chemical warfare agents
Number of events 1970-2016
Sources:
  • ACA (2018)
  • BEH (2018)
  • CIESIN (2016)
  • CNS (2008)
  • CTBTO (2018)
  • FAS (2018)
  • IAEO (2018)
  • IISS (2018)
  • ILPI (2016)
  • IPFM (2018)
  • NNSA (2000)
  • START (2018)
  • bmnt (2018)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Arms control

Indicator
Ratified multilateral arms control agreements
CFE & CFE-II agreement
Geneva Conventions -
UN-Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
Treaty on Open Skies
Dayton Agreement
Vienna Document
Non-Proliferation Treaty
Nuclear-weapon-free zones
Biological Weapons Concention
Chemical Weapons Convention
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
Use of outer space
Outer space treaty
Convention on Registration of Launched Objects into Outer Space
Number of registered and active satellites
Sources:
  • AA (2016)
  • CTBTO (2016)
  • Eurospace (2015)
  • ICRC (2018)
  • OHR (1995)
  • OPCW (2018)
  • OSCE (2011)
  • OSCE (2016)
  • UCS (2018)
  • UNODA (2016)
  • UNODA (2018)
  • UNOG (2018)
  • UNOOSA (2018)
  • aca (2012)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

Environmental safety

Indicator
Environmental conflicts
Global temprature increase (1960-2017) [°C]
Proportion of population potentially affected by rising sea levels in 2030 [%]
Total number of population potentially affected by rising sea levels in 2030
Cilmate-Risk-Index rank (1997 - 2016)  ()
Cilmate-Risk-Index value (1997 - 2016)
Water scarcity in 2040  ()
Water scarcity in 2040 (optimistic)
Water scarcity in 2040 (pessimistic)
Number of dams & reservoirs
Total storage volume of dams & reserviors [mio. m3]
Number of land grabbing deals
Proportion of the land area affected by soil degradation (1982-2003) [%]
Sources:
  • Ackva et al. (2015)
  • Bai et al. (2008)
  • Carius et al. (2006)
  • EC-JRC/PBL (2017)
  • GRDC (2007)
  • GWSP (2011)
  • Germanwatch (2018)
  • Global Land Matrix (2018)
  • Hansen et al. (2010), GISTEMP Team (2018)
  • Neumann et al. (2015)
  • WRI (2015)
Detailed information of the used sources can be found in the list of sources page of this module.

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