Political Violence Events and Fatalities

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

A weekly dataset providing the total number of reported political violence events and fatalities broken down by country. Political violence events include ACLED’s battles, violence against civilians, and explosions/remote violence event types, as well as the mob violence sub-event type of the riots event type.
Note: These are aggregated data files organized by country-year and country-month. To access full event data, please register to use the Data Export Tool and API on the ACLED website.

This dataset updates: Every week

Data and Resources [1]

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political-violence-events-and-fatalities

Modified: 23 April 2025

P-coded: Yes

A weekly dataset providing the total number of reported political violence events and fatalities broken down by country and month. Political violence events include ACLED’s battles, violence against civilians, and explosions/remote violence event types, as well as the mob violence sub-event type of the riots event type.

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