Published on: 26 April 2023 | Last updated: 8 October 2024
ACLED is a living dataset and its coverage is updated by adding new events and updating existing events as new information becomes available. There is no limit to how far back events are updated within our temporal coverage per country. For more about ACLED’s coding and review process, see here.
ACLED also engages in historical coding projects to maintain coverage consistency with older data. Before ACLED begins systematically covering a new source as part of real time coverage, the source is first historically coded, or ‘backcoded,’ over a reporting period that typically spans a few years. This prevents a temporal coverage bias from being introduced in the data each time a new source is added.
