Popular unrest in the form of public expressions of dissatisfaction and grievances like protests and riots can be an indication of existing tensions in society and may escalate into violent conflict in the future. This indicator measures the intensity of popular unrest based on the number of instances of unrest observed, taking into account the liberty to do so within a given country.
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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