Education in Danger: Global Incidents of School Damage and Fatalities

Insecurity Insight provides this dataset of agency and open-source events documenting threats to education, updated as of March 2026. The data tracks incidents such as damage to schools and fatalities, categorized by country and sourced from the Education in Danger Monthly News Brief.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in school damage assessments across different conflict regions
• Correlating fatality counts with specific educational facility types
• Mapping the geographic distribution of threats to education using country-level categorization

Strengths

• Aggregates both agency and open-source intelligence
• Includes specific tags for damage assessment and fatalities
• Categorized by country for geographic analysis

Limitations

• Relies on open-source reporting which may have verification gaps
• Exact row count and schema are not pre-defined in metadata
• Potential reporting bias towards high-profile conflict zones

Provenance

Source

Insecurity Insight

Collection Method

Aggregation of agency reports and open-source event monitoring

Freshness

Updated monthly via the Education in Danger Monthly News Brief.

Geography

Global