Maldives Political Violence and Demonstration Counts by Month and Year

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) provides this weekly updated dataset of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in the Maldives. The data is structured as temporal aggregates, providing total event counts organized by country-year and country-month summaries.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in political violence using country-month event counts
• Comparing annual demonstration frequency in the Maldives across different country-year records
• Monitoring civilian-targeting incident totals to assess national security stability

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency ensures current monitoring
• Categorizes events into specific types like civilian-targeting and demonstrations
• Produced by ACLED, a specialized organization for conflict data collection

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents sub-national geographic analysis
• Full event-level data is gated behind external registration and API requirements

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Freshness

Updated weekly as of March 2026.

Geography

Maldives