EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD
Conflict in Colombia
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 1,626 events of organised violence in Colombia from published sources. Their best estimate is 2,730 people killed — and their own range runs 2,386–3,120, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.
What the record holds
UCDP range 2,386–3,120. On 3of these events UCDP’s own bounds do not bracket its own best estimate; the range above spans everything it published rather than hiding the conflict in the figures.
1,602 placed precisely enough to map; 24 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.
Who was doing the killing
The conflicts behind the events
640–705 · 303 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 143 ev
226–305 · 182 ev
147–275 · 196 ev
191–243 · 148 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 171 ev
Where UCDP had not yet established an actor’s identity it records a placeholder rather than a name; those appear here as “unidentified actor”.
The deadliest single event on record
UCDP's low and high agree on this figure. UCDP's low and high estimates are both 88 — the sources agree.
Los Costenos - Los Pepes · non-state violence — two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.
Colombia, elsewhere on LiveEarthViewer
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 Colombia under the name “Colombia”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.