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Riots, protests and strikes

Protests against governments in 166 countries from 1990 to 2020, as the Mass Mobilization Project records them, and about 3,400 riots, protests and strikes from Wikidata across the centuries.

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What you see

  • Protests, riots and strikes as three kinds of politics event; where a view holds more than 2,000 they gather into counted bubbles.
  • Click a protest for its size, what the protesters demanded and how the state responded, where the Mass Mobilization Project codes them.
  • Opened from this page, the map plays 1990 to 2020.

Where the data comes from

  • Mass Mobilization ProjectVersion 5.1 by David Clark and Patrick Regan: protests of 50 people or more against governments, 1990 to 2020, from newspaper reports.
  • WikidataRiots, protests and strikes with a date and a place, nearly all with a Wikipedia article.

The Mass Mobilization Project ends in March 2020; later events come only from Wikidata.

Good to know

  • The Mass Mobilization Project leaves out the United States, so American protests here are only those Wikidata has.
  • Most protests are placed at their city; about one in seven only at the country.
  • More than half were ignored by the state, as the reports code it; about one in twelve met shootings or killings.

The deadliest recorded here

The first recorded here in each century

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