The Landmine Monitor reports on the global problems with landmines between mid-2023 and October 2024.

At least 5,757 people were killed or injured by landmines or explosive remnants of war in 2023. That is 22 percent more than in the previous year. Three quarters of the victims belong to the civilian population, 1,498 were children. This is the ninth time in a row that the number of victims has risen.

58 states and territories are still contaminated with landmines.

The use of anti-personnel mines by non-signatory states remains one of the greatest challenges to the ban on anti-personnel mines. During the reporting period, landmines were used by the non-signatory states Iran, Myanmar, North Korea and Russia. Ukraine, which is a party to the Ottawa Treaty, is also reported to have used landmines in and around Isjum in 2022, when the city was under Russian control.

Non-state armed groups have also used anti-personnel mines, namely in Colombia, India, Myanmar, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories (Gaza) as well as in countries in the Sahel region.

94 of the 164 states parties to the Ottawa Convention have officially completed the destruction of their stockpiles of anti-personnel mines. In May 2024, Slovakia reported that it no longer stockpiles any anti-personnel mines.

In 2023 States Parties cleared a total of 281.50 km² of contaminated land, destroying 160,566 anti-personnel mines, a significant increase in the area cleared compared to 2022.

Read more in the Landmine Monitor.