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World at war data examined: statistics across continents

This paper examines world at war data providing statistics across continents. Wars bring suffering and death to the population struck by them. The economic consequences of wars extend far beyond these direct deaths. The impact of wars on economic growth can have either positive of negative effects. The majority of research findings up-to-date point out to the conclusion that wars have detrimental effect on economic growth. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effects of four selected war variables (deaths, number of countries in war, military expenditure and refugee population) across continents. Descriptive statistics analysis has shown that Africa and Asia are the continents mostly struck by wars. That finding was confirmed by conducting hierarchical cluster analysis. Hierarchical cluster analysis has also revealed that Europe and South America can be considered as continents with medium war activities whereas North America and Oceania are grouped into cluster with the lowest war activities.

countries at war ; deaths ; military expenditure ; refugee population

Sažetak rada objavljen je i u knjizi sažetaka konferencije: Book of Abstracts of the ISCCRO – International Statistical Conference in Croatia, Volume 4, No. 1, 2022 (ISCCRO’22, PDF) The 4th International Statistical Conference in Croatia ISCCRO’22, Opatija, Croatia, 5-6 May 2022; CONFERENCE TOPIC: „Applied Statistical Methods – Current trends and issues“ ISSN 2584-3850 (Online) http://www.hsd-stat.hr/en/book_of_abstracts/