The Silence
of the Safe
Ten years of war, hidden in plain sight.
Across the full 2015–2025 window, around 14,000 people were killed every month on average. Before the latest escalation, the decade often moved closer to 12,000 a month. A background hum, until the hum became a roar.
2015–2025
2015 full year
When the Shock
Became Routine
Three wounds that never healed.
Oct 2016 · Mosul. The first time the old limits of violence visibly broke.
Feb 2022 · Ukraine. A full-scale invasion turned the "unthinkable" into a daily notification.
Oct 2023 · Gaza. More than 25,000 people killed in 30 days — a spike of grief so sharp it should have stopped the world.
30 days
Beyond
the Uniforms
A life is a life, whether it ends in a trench or a kitchen.
Every number in this dataset was a person — someone's son, someone's mother. There is a specific, darker layer to this decade: violence directed at those who cannot fight back.
In 2024, 43,751 civilians were not just caught in crossfire; they were the target. Markets, hospitals and schools became part of the geography of civilian harm. Sexual violence and abduction appear in the data as instruments of intimidation, control and harm against civilian communities.
targeted in recorded events
was a targeted civilian
The Invisibility
of Suffering
The line is still rising. The attention is not.
By the end of 2025, Sudan had become one of the decade's deadliest conflicts, with limited global attention. Its death toll sits among the highest of the decade, yet its visibility remains strikingly low.
The geography of suffering is unequal — and so is the geography of who gets seen.
since Apr 2023
2022–2024