Coverage and Update Schedule
Available Data
Date last updated
Africa
1 December 2023
Middle East
1 December 2023
Latin America & the Caribbean
1 December 2023
Europe & Central Asia
1 December 2023
Asia-Pacific
1 December 2023
United States & Canada
1 December 2023
All data are updated at the start of every week, through the most recent Friday. Data for Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America & the Caribbean are updated on Mondays, and data for the Asia-Pacific, Europe & Central Asia, and the United States & Canada are updated on Tuesdays. Please note that years of historical coverage vary across countries and regions. A full list of country and time period coverage is available here.
Export Instructions
To export data, please create a free account through the ACLED Access Portal and generate a unique access key. Enter your key and email below to access the dataset. Before downloading data, please review our Terms of Use & Attribution Policy. For more information, check the user guide and the FAQs or contact us at [email protected].
Consult our API Guide for more information on how to access the data.
Technical Notices
- Due to the size of the file, users may encounter technical difficulties when attempting to download the entire dataset. If you would like to download the full dataset, please contact [email protected] for assistance.
- When working with the full dataset, do not open the file with Microsoft Excel, as it contains more rows than the Excel limit. To open the data in Excel, please apply filters to reduce the number of rows in the file before downloading.
- For systems that use semi-colon separated values by default, you may wish to select the “compatibility mode” option in the Data Export Tool when exporting data.
- Exported data will contain a timestamp column that indicates when the data were last updated. Please find a methodology note explaining ACLED timestamps here.
- If you are a LastPass user and the data export tool is not loading properly, enter your LastPass vault and, under advanced options, disable “use improved save and fill.”