Droughts are prolonged periods of abnormally dry conditions. By impacting crop systems, livestock, and water availability, droughts particularly drive risks to food security, and water security, among other things. This indicator captures the total number of months a grid cell has been in drought condition over the past 7 years.
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The CCVI data is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.
The CCVI is updated on a regular basis. Find the release history here:
First release of the CCVI data.
Second release of the CCVI data. Planned for Nov 2024.
Latest quarter: Q2-2024
Created: 2 weeks ago
A lean download of only the data from the latest quarter, as used in this website, in tsv format.
Full dataset including historical time series and reference data in parquet format