Civilian Targeting Events and Fatalities: Global Aggregations by Country

Aggregated counts of civilian targeting events and fatalities are provided weekly by ACLED for various countries. The data includes violence against civilians and explosions/remote violence where civilians were the direct targets, organized by country-year and country-month.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in civilian fatalities across different countries using the country-month aggregations
• Comparing the frequency of 'violence against civilians' versus 'explosions/remote violence' events
• Correlating annual civilian targeting events with national-level socio-economic indicators

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency ensures data reflects recent conflict developments
• Aggregated by country-year and country-month for longitudinal analysis
• Data sourced from ACLED, a specialized organization for conflict event monitoring

Limitations

• Aggregated format lacks specific event-level coordinates and precise daily dates
• Relies on reported fatalities which may be subject to reporting bias or censorship in conflict zones

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from ACLED's primary event-based conflict monitoring

Freshness

Updated weekly

Geography

Global