Belize Political Violence and Demonstration Counts by Month and Year

ACLED provides weekly counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Belize aggregated by month and year. This record tracks conflict trends through March 2026 using standardized event categories. The data is organized into country-year and country-month files for longitudinal analysis.

Use Cases

• Tracking monthly fluctuations in demonstration events to identify periods of civil unrest
• Calculating annual totals of civilian-targeting incidents for human rights reporting
• Correlating political violence counts with macroeconomic indicators at the country-year level

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency
• Standardized ACLED event categorization
• Pre-aggregated country-year and country-month formats

Limitations

• Lacks granular event-level details such as specific actors or coordinates
• Requires external registration for full event data access

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from multi-source event monitoring

Time Range

Ending 2026

Freshness

Updated weekly.

Geography

Belize