Defense & Security
Status: Partially verified. Last reviewed: 2026-08-16. Coverage: 2000–2024.
Known gaps (3)
- Internal security expenditure classification varies by year What to do: Compare internal-security spending across years only with the classification change in mind.
- ACLED coverage of low-intensity events may be incomplete What to do: Low-intensity events may be missing; do not treat counts as complete.
- Peer military-expenditure and monthly ACLED event/fatality figures are drawn from the SIPRI/ACLED download but individual rows are pending line-by-line reconfirmation (see in-code VERIFY markers in defenseData.ts) What to do: Do not cite individual peer or monthly rows until reconfirmed against the SIPRI and ACLED downloads.
Sources
Data version: 56685b017111. Frozen snapshot (JSON).