Philippines Conflict Events: Weekly Aggregated Violence Counts

ACLED produces this weekly updated dataset tracking political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in the Philippines. The data is provided as high-level aggregates organized by country-year and country-month intervals.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the frequency of civilian-targeting events over monthly intervals
• Comparing annual totals of political violence to identify long-term stability trends
• Correlating demonstration event counts with national policy changes

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency ensures current monitoring
• Standardized ACLED categorization of political violence and demonstrations
• Aggregated by country-year and country-month for longitudinal study

Limitations

• Aggregated format lacks specific geographic coordinates for sub-national analysis
• Full event-level details require external registration and API access
• Limited to three high-level event categories

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from primary event-based conflict monitoring

Freshness

Updated weekly; last recorded update March 2026.

Geography

Philippines