EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD
Conflict in Costa Rica
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 2 Jan 2024 and 31 Dec 2025, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 190 events of organised violence in Costa Rica from published sources. Their best estimate is 199 people killed — and their own range runs 38–216, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.
What the record holds
UCDP range 38–216.
190 placed precisely enough to map.
Who was doing the killing
The conflicts behind the events
6–149 · 132 ev
32–67 · 58 ev
The deadliest single event on record
UCDP range 0–3. UCDP's own estimate spans 0 to 3; 3 is its best estimate, not a certainty.
Forces of Tony Peña - Los Hondureños · non-state violence — two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.
Costa Rica, 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 Costa Rica under the name “Costa Rica”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.