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Belarus

Belarus has a Calm pressure reading, in the middle half.

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54 / 100

#91 of 206

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

Chance of a conflict escalation in Belarus 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 Belarus, or with Belarus 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

Population9.1M
CapitalMinsk
Area207.6k km²
GDP$93.4B (2025)
CurrencyBYN
LanguagesBelarusian, Russian
Armed forces158k (2020)
L1 Identity
n/a · identity, no pressure reading
L2 Economy
48.75
L3 Politics
78.5
L4 Events
42.3
L5 Information
67.24
L6 Society
72

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 92.8 (1973-1973); lowest 67.8 (2010s).

Details

Recorded events 44 · Country record

  • 2025election
  • 2022sovereign stress
  • 2020election
  • 2016currency stress
  • 2015currency stress
  • 2015election
  • 1 Jan 2014capital controls
  • 2012currency stress
  • 2011currency stress
  • 19 Dec 2010street pressure
  • 2010election
  • 1 Jan 2009external support
Show all 44
  • 2009currency stress
  • 1 Jan 2008capital controls
  • 25 Mar 2007street pressure
  • 19 Mar 2006street pressure
  • 2006election
  • 2002currency stress
  • 2001currency stress
  • 2001election
  • 15 Mar 2000street pressure
  • 2000currency stress
  • 2000election
  • 17 Oct 1999street pressure
  • 1999currency stress
  • 23 Mar 1998street pressure
  • 1998currency stress
  • 15 Mar 1997street pressure
  • 1 Jan 1997capital controls
  • 1997currency stress
  • 7 May 1996street pressure
  • 2 Apr 1996street pressure
  • 24 Mar 1996street pressure
  • 1996currency stress
  • 1 Sep 1995external support
  • 26 Jan 1995street pressure
  • 1995currency stress
  • 1995election
  • 1994currency stress
  • 1994election
  • 1993currency stress
  • 1993sovereign stress
  • 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.

Belarus · historical scale through 2025
YearMapped historical scoreHistorical bandRecord
197392.8Crisisarchive reading
198088.4Crisisarchive reading
198187.0Crisisarchive reading
198285.6Crisisarchive reading
198384.3Crisisarchive reading
198483.3Crisisarchive reading
198583.1Crisisarchive reading
198682.5Crisisarchive reading
198782.3Crisisarchive reading
198882.6Crisisarchive reading
198963.2Watcharchive reading
199063.9Watcharchive reading
199184.7Crisisarchive reading
199282.7Crisisarchive reading
199388.2Crisisarchive reading
199488.4Crisisarchive reading
199595.0Crisisarchive reading
199693.5Crisisarchive reading
199793.4Crisisarchive reading
199886.9Crisisarchive reading
199990.7Crisisarchive reading
200083.7Crisisarchive reading
200180.0Crisisarchive reading
200278.9Strainarchive reading
200376.3Strainarchive reading
200472.6Strainarchive reading
200571.8Strainarchive reading
200671.1Strainarchive reading
200770.3Strainarchive reading
200868.6Strainarchive reading
200967.9Strainarchive reading
201069.5Strainarchive reading
201166.8Strainarchive reading
201266.3Strainarchive reading
201365.4Strainarchive reading
201465.1Strainarchive reading
201577.5Strainarchive reading
201677.5Strainarchive reading
201763.9Watcharchive reading
201863.5Watcharchive reading
201962.0Watcharchive reading
202076.4Strainarchive reading
202163.4Watcharchive reading
202284.0Crisisarchive reading
202375.1Strainarchive reading
202458.6Watcharchive reading
202558.1Watcharchive reading
Belarus · 2026 snapshot, frozen 10 July 2026
Snapshot yearScore on the separate 2026 scaleIndependent archived crisis categoryRecord
202654.0Calmarchive reading

Years like now

3 similar years · Closest: Israel, 1971

Details

ISR, 1971

Published archive distance 0.2707. This similarity is not a forecast.

NPL, 1977

Published archive distance 0.2763. This similarity is not a forecast.

CPV, 2013

Published archive distance 0.2903. This similarity is not a forecast.

Last cycles

Last change: 17 Oct 2026, 2 fields.

Details
Country change history for Belarus
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 20262026-10-061Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 1 · 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 20262026-08-270Identity: 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 Politics84%
L4 Events42%
L5 Information73%
L6 Society70%

Source: Hendeka record audit, snapshot 28 Oct 2026

Phase 1Confidence 62.6

Belarus in this snapshot

Belarus (BLR) records Calm pressure at 54.0 of 100 and touches 0 mapped pressure points.

The recorded country pattern is drifting; its numbered pressure band is 1. The source confidence score is 62.6.

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; 48 archive readings. Identity is descriptive; absent readings are named beside each layer.

Belarus has pressure score 54/100 in Calm. 90 of 206 public Atlas entries have a higher score; 14 share this score. Its competition rank is 91. This is the published snapshot, not the mapped historical scale.

Adjacent entries in score-descending order (ties by case-folded name, then ISO3): Azerbaijan (AZE), 54/100, tied; Benin (BEN), 54/100, tied.

Belarus's highest decade mean is recorded in 1973-1973 (1 readings, mean 92.8). The lowest is 2010-2019 (10 readings, mean 67.8). Calendar decades use available years only; edge decades are partial. These means are calculated from published mapped scores, not the latest pressure scores.

Belarus: published archive aggregates by calendar decade
Observed yearsReadingsMeanMinimumMaximumAt or above 80
1973-1973192.892.892.81
1980-19891082.263.288.49
1990-19991086.763.9959
2000-20091074.167.983.72
2010-20191067.86277.50
2020-2025669.358.1841

Across 47 annual readings (1973-2025), Belarus's mapped-score peak is 95 in 1995; the minimum is 58.1 in 2025.

Every published year for Belarus, 1973-2025, is at or above the historical threshold 55: 47 of 47 readings.

Belarus is at or above the historical threshold 65 in 39 of 47 readings: 1973, 1980-1988, 1991-2016, 2020, 2022-2023. The remaining 8 are below 65.

Belarus is at or above the historical threshold 80 in 22 of 47 readings: 1973, 1980-1988, 1991-2001, 2022. The remaining 25 are below 80.

The latest observed annual historical-band change for Belarus is 2023 to 2024: Strain (75.1) to Watch (58.6). This compares annual historical readings; it does not describe a change between published country snapshots.

Belarus 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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