ACLED Demonstration Events: Weekly Global Protest and Riot Aggregations

This weekly dataset from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) provides aggregated counts of protest and riot events globally. It categorizes events by country-year and country-month, excluding mob violence sub-types, to facilitate macro-level analysis of civil unrest.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in protest frequency using country-month aggregations
• Comparing riot event counts across different countries and years
• Correlating demonstration volume with national-level economic or political indicators

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency ensures data reflects recent civil unrest
• Standardized ACLED event categorization for protests and riots
• Global geographic coverage across multiple countries

Limitations

• Aggregated format lacks specific event-level coordinates or precise dates
• Excludes mob violence sub-event types from the riot category
• Granular data requires external registration and API access

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Freshness

Weekly

Geography

Global