Protest & political violence around the world

Data is near-real time, and updated weekly.


Research attention vs. conflict exposure

Countrywise data, 2000–2025. Analysed from Scopus records of peer-reviewed publications on political violence (n = 7,914; y-axis), and ACLED data on conflict events ((n = 749,130; x-axis & colour shading).

CountrywiseConflictStudies
Country Conflict exposure
(# events)
Research attention
(# studies)

Conflict intensity tracker

Time series of countries by their conflict intensity (1989–2025), measured as overall deaths caused by state & non-state actors. Colour coding is relative to each country's own "worst year", so you can see when violence peaked; switch to the log scale to compare absolute death tolls across countries.

Sources: UCDP (Uppsala Conflict Data Program), Georeferenced Event Dataset (Davies, Pettersson & Öberg, 2026; Sundberg & Melander, 2013), accessed 2026-07-09.