Almost 40% of the world's countries will witness civil unrest in 2020, research claims

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Protesters march on a street during a rally against the extradition law proposal on June 9, 2019 in Hong Kong China. Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in Hong Kong in Sunday against a controversial extradition bill that would allow suspected criminals to be sent to mainland China for trial.(Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)

Almost a quarter of the world's countries witnessed a surge in protest and unrest last year and that figure is set to rise further in 2020, according to a new study.

There are 195 countries in the world, if the Vatican and Palestine are included, and a newly released index of civil unrest has claimed that 47 of those states witnessed a rise in civil unrest in 2019.

The data model, published Thursday by socio-economic and political analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft, has also predicted that in 2020, the number will balloon to 75 countries.

The U.K. consultancy identified Hong Kong and Chile as the two flashpoints suffering the largest increases in unrest since the beginning of 2019. Neither country is expected to find peace for at least two years, according to the research.

mrtn17 on January 16th, 2020 at 22:14 UTC »

'Civil unrest' has a broad meaning and isn't always a bad thing. Otherwise the USA wouldn't even exist. If you look at actual wars, other researchers claim that there's less war conflicts in the world

I'm a bit wary reading articles from corporate media, the third bulletpoint already mentions "Corporations will be under increased pressure to avoid getting tangled up in this “new normal.” So for who is this written?

GiveMeWritingPrompts on January 16th, 2020 at 21:10 UTC »

Gotta get those numbers up, those are rookie numbers.

Chinese_Radiation on January 16th, 2020 at 20:17 UTC »

Hard to take these vague, alarmist headlines seriously. Pretty sure most of the third world is in a constant state of unrest anyhow.