Saudi Arabia Conflict Events: Aggregated Political Violence and Demonstrations

Aggregated weekly counts of political violence, civilian-targeting, and demonstration events in Saudi Arabia provided by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). The data is organized into country-year and country-month summaries, with records updated through March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in civilian-targeting events using country-month aggregates
• Comparing annual totals of political violence across different years
• Correlating demonstration event counts with national or regional political shifts

Strengths

• Data provided by ACLED, a specialized conflict monitoring organization
• Weekly update frequency
• Categorization into specific event types like civilian-targeting and demonstrations

Limitations

• Aggregated format prevents spatial analysis below the country level
• Full event details require external registration and API access
• Unknown total record count

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from ACLED's primary conflict event monitoring

Freshness

Weekly updates.

Geography

Saudi Arabia