Colombia Armed Group Violence
Post-peace-deal fragmentation has left armed groups controlling large rural areas.
Severity score
53.9
Severe · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
Dissident FARC factions, the ELN and successor paramilitary groups compete over coca, gold and migration routes. Social leaders and land rights defenders are murdered at some of the highest rates in the world, and displacement continues despite the 2016 peace agreement.
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
66Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
76People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
34Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
26Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
44Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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