EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD

Conflict in Brazil

NOT LIVE · BRAZIL RECORD RUNS 1 JAN 2024 → 30 MAY 2026

This is a verified record, not a live feed. UCDP hand-codes every event from published sources, which takes weeks — the newest event here is from 2026-05-31. For what is happening right now, LEV’s Global Incidents layer carries the machine-coded newswire at about fifteen minutes’ delay.

Between 1 Jan 2024 and 30 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 2,167 events of organised violence in Brazil from published sources. Their best estimate is 2,426 people killed — and their own range runs 2,239–2,477, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.

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What the record holds

DEATHS RECORDED · UCDP BEST ESTIMATE2,426

UCDP range 2,239–2,477.

EVENTS2,167

2,152 placed precisely enough to map; 15 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.

Who was doing the killing

State-based1 event · 1 killed — A government is one of the sides — a civil war or a war between states.

Non-state1,965 events · 2,215 killed (UCDP range 2,059–2,244) — Two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.

One-sided201 events · 210 killed (UCDP range 179–232) — An armed group or government kills civilians who are not fighting back.

The conflicts behind the events

Comando Vermelho - PCC771
643–783 · 674 ev

Cartel do Norte - Comando Vermelho288
286–288 · 272 ev

Bonde dos 40 - PCC208
UCDP low and high agree · 192 ev

GDE, PCC - Sindicato do Crime173
173–180 · 169 ev

Comando Vermelho - Civilians129
99–146 · 126 ev

PCC - Sindicato do Crime116
108–118 · 98 ev

The deadliest single event on record

1 JUL 2025 · RIO CLARO TOWN9 killed

UCDP's low and high agree on this figure. UCDP's low and high estimates are both 9 — the sources agree.

Comando Vermelho - PCC · non-state violence — two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.

Brazil, elsewhere on LiveEarthViewer

Brazil in the Atlas →Who fled →On the live Earth map →

Source

Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University — UCDP GED v26.1 + UCDP Candidate v26_0_1..v26_0_5, released under CC BY 4.0. Coverage ends 31 May 2026. UCDP records Brazil under the name “Brazil”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.