I've got this idea baking because I saw a guy post that it's been as many year from 1971 to 2024 as it was from 1971 to 1918. How do the global wars compare in the two periods? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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It occurs to me that this last 1/2 century or so has been globally pretty peaceful. And I wondered if it might even be one of the MOST peaceful 50 years we've had.

I'm inclined to imagine that the Cold War might have kept a lid on larger military aspirations. What do you think, am I deluded?

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You might like this graph of global war deaths by year from 1800 to present:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-in-wars

World War 2 vastly overshadows all other conflicts. Something like 3.7% of the global population died. Some individual countries lost more than 10% of their populations. No other conflict, or group of regional conflicts, comes anywhere close.

I wish the graph in the link had an option to normalize by population. I bet a graph of war deaths as a percent of global population would look very peaceful over the past 50 years.

Edit to add a link about my 10% population number:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351638/second-world-war-share-total-population-loss/

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It feels like it'd be good to see that chart with the world war I and world war II data removed so you can see the other data.

The way it is now it's all so squashed it's almost meaningless. And yes it be good to see it adjusted for percent of population.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's what log plot is for, it squashes all data so you have a decent idea of small things even when compared to huge things

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