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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.
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
- Eutaw riot25 Oct 1870 · Riot · Deaths 46,114
- Direct Action Day16 Aug 1946 · Riot · Deaths 4,000
- 2010 Jos riots2010 · Riot · Deaths 2,992
- 2011 Egyptian revolution25 Jan 2011 · Protest · Deaths 1,146
- 1950 East Bengal genocideFeb 1950 · Riot · Deaths 1,000
- 1981 Moroccan riots1981 · Riot · Deaths 1,000
- 2001 Jos riotsSep 2001 · Riot · Deaths 1,000
- 2008 Jos riots28 Nov 2008 · Riot · Deaths 761
- 2021–present Myanmar protests2 Feb 2021 · Protest · Deaths 500
- 2019–2021 Iraqi protests1 Oct 2019 · Protest · Deaths 485
The first recorded here in each century
- Rouen Riot9 Nov 1090 · Riot
- 1229 University of Paris strike3 Apr 1229 · Protest
- 1345 Liverpool riot22 Feb 1345 · Riot
- 1410 Zaragoza riot23 May 1410 · Riot
- Evil May Day11 May 1517 · Riot
- Nanjing Incident of 16161616 · Riot
- Boston Bread Riot1710 · Riot
- Know-Nothing riots1800s · Riot
- Grève de février 1900 en MartiniqueFeb 1900 · Strike
- 2000 Costa Rican protests2000 · Protest
Goes well with
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World news on the mapBreaking news placed on a live map: reports from news wires and public Telegram channels pinned to the places they name, beside GDELT’s coded events.
World news on the mapBreaking news placed on a live map: reports from news wires and public Telegram channels pinned to the places they name, beside GDELT’s coded events.