Data Export Tool

Coverage and Update Schedule

Available Data

Date last updated

Africa

26 May 2023

Middle East

26 May 2023

Latin America & the Caribbean

26 May 2023

Europe & Central Asia

26 May 2023

Asia-Pacific

26 May 2023

United States & Canada

26 May 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].

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.”

Data Export Tool