Datasets
How much the world's newspapers are writing about wars, threats and terrorism, globally and for 44 countries.
Countries with the highest index in the latest month.
Appears once the monthly country indexes are loaded.
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The Geopolitical Risk (GPR) index by Dario Caldara and Matteo Iacoviello, measured from the share of newspaper articles about adverse geopolitical events and threats (CC BY). Caldara and Iacoviello (2022), "Measuring Geopolitical Risk," American Economic Review.
Country indexes count the share of articles that mention both geopolitical tensions and that country. They are comparable over time for one country, not as a ranking of how dangerous countries are.