Data Export Tool

May Data Pause: ACLED data updates are paused for the second and third weeks of May 2023. Data covering the period of 29 April to 19 May will be published according to the regular data release schedule on Monday, 22 May, and Tuesday, 23 May. Standard updates on Monday and Tuesday will resume the following week. Thank you for your understanding during this temporary schedule adjustment. Please reach out to  if you have any questions or concerns.

Coverage and Update Schedule

Available Data

Date last updated

Africa

28 April 2023

Middle East

28 April 2023

Latin America & the Caribbean

28 April 2023

Europe & Central Asia

28 April 2023

Asia-Pacific

28 April 2023

United States & Canada

28 April 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].

Instructions

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

Guides and Methodology

Please consult the ACLED Codebook and User Guide when working with the data. Further guides and methodology documents – including briefs explaining our sourcing and fatality methodologies, as well as specific coding decisions for different countries and conflict contexts – can be found in the ACLED Resource Library.

Deleted Events

Events are occasionally removed from the ACLED dataset if new information comes to light to disqualify them from inclusion or if an event is merged with another event. The latter is done to avoid duplicate events. Per ACLED methodology, violent events involving the same actors occurring on the same day in the same location are aggregated into a single event; the same is done for demonstrations occurring on the same day in the same location over the same issues (for more, see the ACLED Codebook). See the guide on how to use this file and keep your ACLED dataset updated.