Intensity of violence measures the direct local effects of armed violence on human life. The more people die as a result of armed violence, the higher the intensity of armed conflict is assumed to be. The indicators is a combination of all individual instances of armed violence within a grid cell in a given quarter.
The downloads contain technical information on data formats and file contents. For background on the conceptual framework and details on the indicator processing, please refer to this Technical Documentation document (pdf).
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