Antarctica Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregates by Country and Year

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) provides weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events occurring in Antarctica. Updated through March 2026, the records are structured into country-year and country-month summaries to track regional stability trends.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political demonstrations using country-month aggregates
• Comparing annual counts of civilian-targeting events across different national claims
• Monitoring shifts in political violence reports in Antarctica over time

Strengths

• Aggregated by country-year and country-month units
• Produced by ACLED, a specialized conflict monitoring organization
• Weekly update frequency

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents granular spatial analysis
• Requires external registration for access to the full event-level database
• Antarctica typically has extremely low event counts, potentially resulting in sparse data

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Freshness

Weekly updates

Geography

Antarctica