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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina has a Watch pressure reading, in the middle half.

🟡 Watch

55 / 100

#73 of 206

Chance of a conflict escalation in Bosnia and Herzegovina in November or December 2026: <0.1% · remote

Chance of a conflict escalation in Bosnia and Herzegovina in November or December 2026

Government attribution notice published 26 October 2026

What counts
In November or December 2026, organised violence on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or with Bosnia and Herzegovina as an active party, must cause at least 25 battle-related deaths in a calendar month and at least twice the monthly average of the preceding three months. A conflict continuing at a steady high intensity does not meet this escalation threshold.
Months measured
the whole of November 2026 and the whole of December 2026.
Decided by
UCDP Candidate Events data (Uppsala Conflict Data Program), best estimate of battle-related deaths, monthly release. The question will be resolved by 5 Feb 2027 if the required UCDP data are available.
Resolution convention
For records spanning calendar months, deaths are allocated in proportion to inclusive calendar days. Events not assigned to a territory under the frozen UCDP place table are excluded from both the target month's total and the average of its preceding three months. Active party means the country's government is coded as a side by UCDP. Certain active-party attribution is retained, and each event is counted once per country.
Published
25 Oct 2026
Our estimate
<0.1% · remote
If data are unavailable
If the required UCDP data are unavailable by 5 Feb 2027, the question is recorded as Unresolved.

Earlier issues in the forecast record

22 Oct 2026 · October or November 2026

24 Oct 2026 · November or December 2026

Population3.1M
CapitalSarajevo
Area51.2k km²
GDP$32.6B (2025)
CurrencyBAM
LanguagesBosnian + more
Armed forces11k (2020)
L1 Identity
n/a · identity, no pressure reading
L2 Economy
37.5
L3 Politics
46.67
L4 Events
24.8
L5 Information
29.3
L6 Society
46.67

Layer readings: method v1.1, from each layer's documented record, same 0-100 scale as country score. Snapshot 28 Oct 2026.

Since 1946

Highest decade mean 95 (1960s; 1970s); lowest 32.7 (2020-2025).

Details

Recorded events 22 · Country record

  • 2022election
  • 2018election
  • 1 Sep 2016external support
  • 2014election
  • 1 Sep 2012external support
  • 1 Jan 2012capital controls
  • 2010election
  • 1 Jul 2009external support
  • 1 Jan 2009capital controls
  • 2006election
  • 1 Jan 2003capital controls
  • 1 Aug 2002external support
Show all 22
  • 2002election
  • 1 May 1998external support
  • 1998election
  • 1996election
  • 1995currency stress
  • 1994currency stress
  • 1993currency stress
  • 5 Mar 1992street pressure
  • 1992currency stress
  • 1991currency stress

public country snapshot archive, frozen 10 July 2026. The chart shows mapped historical scores through 2025, with bands at 55, 65 and 80. The 2026 snapshot uses a separate score scale. Its archived crisis category is independent of that number. No numerical change from 2025 to 2026 is implied.

Bosnia and Herzegovina · historical scale through 2025
YearMapped historical scoreHistorical bandRecord
195287.3Crisisarchive reading
195387.3Crisisarchive reading
195487.3Crisisarchive reading
195595.0Crisisarchive reading
195695.0Crisisarchive reading
195795.0Crisisarchive reading
195895.0Crisisarchive reading
195995.0Crisisarchive reading
196095.0Crisisarchive reading
196195.0Crisisarchive reading
196295.0Crisisarchive reading
196395.0Crisisarchive reading
196495.0Crisisarchive reading
196595.0Crisisarchive reading
196695.0Crisisarchive reading
196795.0Crisisarchive reading
196895.0Crisisarchive reading
196995.0Crisisarchive reading
197095.0Crisisarchive reading
197195.0Crisisarchive reading
197295.0Crisisarchive reading
197395.0Crisisarchive reading
197495.0Crisisarchive reading
197595.0Crisisarchive reading
197695.0Crisisarchive reading
197795.0Crisisarchive reading
197895.0Crisisarchive reading
197995.0Crisisarchive reading
198095.0Crisisarchive reading
198195.0Crisisarchive reading
198295.0Crisisarchive reading
198395.0Crisisarchive reading
198495.0Crisisarchive reading
198595.0Crisisarchive reading
198695.0Crisisarchive reading
198795.0Crisisarchive reading
198895.0Crisisarchive reading
198972.0Strainarchive reading
199066.8Strainarchive reading
199171.7Strainarchive reading
199295.0Crisisarchive reading
199395.0Crisisarchive reading
199495.0Crisisarchive reading
199595.0Crisisarchive reading
199677.3Strainarchive reading
199774.9Strainarchive reading
199874.1Strainarchive reading
199973.9Strainarchive reading
200073.0Strainarchive reading
200160.9Watcharchive reading
200273.4Strainarchive reading
200360.7Watcharchive reading
200461.2Watcharchive reading
200560.8Watcharchive reading
200661.8Watcharchive reading
200763.6Watcharchive reading
200863.3Watcharchive reading
200986.3Crisisarchive reading
201060.0Watcharchive reading
201159.9Watcharchive reading
201270.6Strainarchive reading
201361.5Watcharchive reading
201462.9Watcharchive reading
201560.4Watcharchive reading
201671.9Strainarchive reading
201770.3Strainarchive reading
201859.9Watcharchive reading
201944.6Calmarchive reading
202067.3Strainarchive reading
202129.1Calmarchive reading
202225.3Calmarchive reading
202326.3Calmarchive reading
202420.8Calmarchive reading
202527.5Calmarchive reading
Bosnia and Herzegovina · 2026 snapshot, frozen 10 July 2026
Snapshot yearScore on the separate 2026 scaleIndependent archived crisis categoryRecord
202655.0Watcharchive reading

Years like now

3 similar years · Closest: Qatar, 1991

Details

QAT, 1991

Published archive distance 0.3945. This similarity is not a forecast.

FRA, 2006

Published archive distance 0.4747. This similarity is not a forecast.

ARE, 1994

Published archive distance 0.5023. This similarity is not a forecast.

Last cycles

Last change: 17 Oct 2026, 2 fields.

Details
Country change history for Bosnia and Herzegovina
CycleDateFields changedLayer distance from baselineRecord
date unavailable2026-10-280Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
17 Oct 20262026-10-172Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
6 Oct 20262026-10-060Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
25 Sep 20262026-09-250Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
14 Sep 20262026-09-140Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
4 Sep 20262026-09-040Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
27 Aug 20262026-08-271Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Reconstructed from archived cycle files
14 Aug 20262026-08-145Identity: 0 · Economy: 1 · Politics: 0 · Events: 2 · Information: 1 · Society: 1Reconstructed from archived cycle files
2 Aug 20262026-08-020Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Reconstructed from archived cycle files
29 Jul 20262026-07-29T13:40:26Z2Identity: 0 · Economy: 2 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Reconstructed from archived cycle files
10 Jul 20262026-07-10T00:30:00Z0Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
🟢 Calm <55🟡 Watch 55-<65🟠 Strain 65-<80🔴 Crisis 80-100

Snapshot 28 Oct 2026 · Public country snapshot · Data notices

Technical detail

Field sources carry their own dates (shown in each detail).

Record support

How well documented each layer of this country's record is (share of confirmed and sourced fields). Not a pressure reading.

L1 Identity60%
L2 Economy49%
L3 Politics94%
L4 Events48%
L5 Information73%
L6 Society70%

Source: Hendeka record audit, snapshot 28 Oct 2026

Phase 2Confidence 65.4

Bosnia and Herzegovina in this snapshot

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) records Watch pressure at 55.0 of 100 and touches 0 mapped pressure points.

The recorded country pattern is drifting; its numbered pressure band is 2. The source confidence score is 65.4.

Snapshot 28 Oct 2026. Dataset published 2026-11-05T08:17:49Z. Source: public country snapshot public country index.

5 public layer readings; 0 mapped pressure points in this dated snapshot; 11 country change records; 75 archive readings. Identity is descriptive; absent readings are named beside each layer.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has pressure score 55/100 in Watch. 72 of 206 public Atlas entries have a higher score; 18 share this score. Its competition rank is 73. This is the published snapshot, not the mapped historical scale.

Adjacent entries in score-descending order (ties by case-folded name, then ISO3): Angola (AGO), 55/100, tied; Congo (COG), 55/100, tied.

Bosnia and Herzegovina's highest decade mean is recorded in 1960-1969 (10 readings, mean 95); 1970-1979 (10 readings, mean 95). The lowest is 2020-2025 (6 readings, mean 32.7). Calendar decades use available years only; edge decades are partial. These means are calculated from published mapped scores, not the latest pressure scores.

Bosnia and Herzegovina: published archive aggregates by calendar decade
Observed yearsReadingsMeanMinimumMaximumAt or above 80
1952-1959892.187.3958
1960-19691095959510
1970-19791095959510
1980-19891092.772959
1990-19991081.966.8954
2000-20091066.560.786.31
2010-20191062.244.671.90
2020-2025632.720.867.30

Across 74 annual readings (1952-2025), Bosnia and Herzegovina's mapped-score peak is 95 in 1955-1988, 1992-1995; the minimum is 20.8 in 2024.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is at or above the historical threshold 55 in 68 of 74 readings: 1952-2018, 2020. The remaining 6 are below 55.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is at or above the historical threshold 65 in 55 of 74 readings: 1952-2000, 2002, 2009, 2012, 2016-2017, 2020. The remaining 19 are below 65.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is at or above the historical threshold 80 in 42 of 74 readings: 1952-1988, 1992-1995, 2009. The remaining 32 are below 80.

The latest observed annual historical-band change for Bosnia and Herzegovina is 2020 to 2021: Strain (67.3) to Calm (29.1). This compares annual historical readings; it does not describe a change between published country snapshots.

Bosnia and Herzegovina records no changed fields against the previous measured cycle at date unavailable (2026-10-28); previous cycle: 17 Oct 2026. Layer counts are distances from baseline, not cycle-change components.

Pressure point readings and their own snapshot date are shown in Pressure points.

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