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ACLED
Conflict and political violence event dataset covering 200+ countries with subnational geocoding.
Founded 2005United States (501(c)(3) nonprofit)
Coverage
- Geo Coverage
- global
- Content Types
- structured conflict data
- Categories
- BattlesExplosionsViolence Against CiviliansProtestsRiots
Data & Delivery
Full text articles
Article summaries
Headline only
Real-time
Historical data (29+ years)
Webhooks
Streaming
Article summaries
Headline only
Real-time
Historical data (29+ years)
Webhooks
Streaming
Delivery Methods
REST API
Data Formats
CSVJSON
API Limits
5K events/call, pagination supported
NLP & Enrichment
Sentiment analysis
Entity extraction
Entity disambiguation
Story clustering
Deduplication
Topic classification
Publisher ranking
Entity extraction
Entity disambiguation
Story clustering
Deduplication
Topic classification
Publisher ranking
Developer Experience
Free API tier
MCP server
MCP server
SDK / Libraries
RPython
Pricing
- Model
- freemium
- Free Tier
- Free myACLED account
- Paid Plans
- Research/Partner tiers, Enterprise custom
Company
- Parent Company
- Independent
- Founded
- 2005
- Headquarters
- United States (501(c)(3) nonprofit)
About ACLED
ACLED is a nonprofit tracking 6 event types with 25 sub-types across 200+ countries. It provides weekly-updated structured event records with subnational geocoding and historical data for Africa from 1997 and globally from 2021.
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