ACLED Political Violence: Global Event and Fatality Aggregates

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) provides weekly updates on reported political violence events and fatalities globally. The data is aggregated into country-year and country-month intervals, tracking specific categories such as battles, violence against civilians, and explosions.

Use Cases

• Analyzing 'fatalities' trends across 'country-month' aggregates to identify seasonal conflict patterns
• Comparing the frequency of 'violence against civilians' versus 'battles' within specific countries
• Evaluating the prevalence of 'mob violence' sub-events relative to total political violence in a given year

Strengths

• Weekly update frequency for near real-time monitoring
• Includes specific sub-event types like mob violence and remote violence
• Standardized country-month and country-year aggregation levels

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents analysis of specific incident locations
• Full event-level granularity is restricted behind a separate ACLED registration wall

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Annotated

Freshness

Updated weekly.

Geography

Global