Mexico Conflict and Demonstration Events: Weekly Aggregated Totals

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) provides weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Mexico. The data is organized into country-year and country-month summaries to track security and social unrest trends over time.

Use Cases

• Analyzing annual trends in 'political violence' counts to assess national security shifts
• Monitoring monthly fluctuations in 'demonstration events' to identify periods of high social unrest
• Comparing the frequency of 'civilian-targeting' incidents against other conflict categories for risk assessment

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency ensures high temporal relevance
• Sourced from ACLED, a specialized organization for conflict monitoring
• Categorizes events into distinct types such as civilian-targeting and demonstrations

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents granular geospatial analysis of specific incident locations
• Full event-level data is gated behind a mandatory registration wall on the ACLED website

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Expert-led monitoring and aggregation of conflict reports

Freshness

Updated weekly as of March 2026.

Geography

Mexico