Conflict Events and Electricity Poverty in 97 Countries, 2016-2020

46 of 97 countries with incomplete electrification experienced conflict events against the state between 2016 and 2020. The data visualizes these events as a heat map and point locations, with risk zones derived from convex hull analysis. It was created by Guillaume L'Her and is available via paperswithcode.

Use Cases

• Mapping conflict hotspots based on battle event locations mentioned in the description
• Analyzing correlations between energy poverty and political instability based on the 97-country sample
• Conducting risk zone modeling based on the clustered convex hull analysis described
• Visualizing temporal trends in state-targeted conflict over the 2016-2020 period

Strengths

• Covers 97 countries with electrification rates below 100%
• Includes data on conflict events over a 5-year period (2016-2020)
• Provides geospatial features including point locations and derived risk zones

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Guillaume L'Her

Collection Method

Likely compiled from conflict event databases and electrification statistics; analysis includes convex hull clustering.

Time Range

2016-2020

Geography

Global, focusing on 97 countries with incomplete electrification