IMF Working Papers

Reported Social Unrest Index: September 2024 Update

ByPhilip Barrett

October 11, 2024

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Philip Barrett. "Reported Social Unrest Index: September 2024 Update", IMF Working Papers 2024, 225 (2024), accessed 12/8/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400290893.001

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Summary

This is the third update of the reported Social Unrest Index (Barrett et al. 2022), describing the evolution of social unrest worldwide since June 2023. It shows that the global incidence of unrest has stayed broadly stable in the last year. However, the global distribution has not been even, with a concentration of major events in Europe and sub-Saharan Africa and, to a lesser extent, in the Western Hemisphere.

Subject: COVID-19, Financial markets, Health, Stock markets

Keywords: copyright page, COVID-19, Europe, Global, Media coverage, RSUI data, RSUI-defined event, Social unrest, Stock markets, Sub-Saharan Africa, unrest event, unrest index, Western Hemisphere

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