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Gambia

Gambia has a Calm pressure reading, in the lowest quarter.

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19.1 / 100

#174 of 206

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

Chance of a conflict escalation in the Gambia 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 the Gambia, or with the Gambia 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

Population2.8M
CapitalBanjul
Area10.7k km²
GDP$2.6B (2025)
CurrencyGMD
LanguagesEnglish
Armed forces4k (2020)
L1 Identity
n/a · identity, no pressure reading
L2 Economy
30.62
L3 Politics
49
L4 Events
39.4
L5 Information
63.86
L6 Society
55.5

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 83.8 (1990s); lowest 56.3 (1946-1949).

Details

Recorded events 24 · Country record

  • 1 Jan 2024external support
  • 2021election
  • 1 Mar 2020external support
  • 16 Dec 2019street pressure
  • 2016election
  • 1 May 2012external support
  • 2011election
  • 2009currency stress
  • 1 Feb 2007external support
  • 2006election
  • 2003currency stress
  • 1 Jul 2002external support
Show all 24
  • 2002currency stress
  • 2001currency stress
  • 2001election
  • 1 Jun 1998external support
  • 1996election
  • 1992election
  • 1987election
  • 1985currency stress
  • 1984currency stress
  • 1982election
  • 1981conflict escalation
  • 1973currency 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.

Gambia · historical scale through 2025
YearMapped historical scoreHistorical bandRecord
194659.8Watcharchive reading
194759.8Watcharchive reading
194859.8Watcharchive reading
194945.8Calmarchive reading
195076.6Strainarchive reading
195176.6Strainarchive reading
195276.8Strainarchive reading
195376.3Strainarchive reading
195476.3Strainarchive reading
195575.9Strainarchive reading
195675.9Strainarchive reading
195775.8Strainarchive reading
195875.8Strainarchive reading
195975.7Strainarchive reading
196075.0Strainarchive reading
196175.7Strainarchive reading
196259.8Watcharchive reading
196359.9Watcharchive reading
196456.9Watcharchive reading
196565.0Strainarchive reading
196663.9Watcharchive reading
196763.3Watcharchive reading
196862.5Watcharchive reading
196962.1Watcharchive reading
197062.1Watcharchive reading
197169.6Strainarchive reading
197261.2Watcharchive reading
197362.1Watcharchive reading
197461.9Watcharchive reading
197560.5Watcharchive reading
197672.9Strainarchive reading
197771.4Strainarchive reading
197871.4Strainarchive reading
197973.2Strainarchive reading
198070.6Strainarchive reading
198172.9Strainarchive reading
198270.7Strainarchive reading
198381.9Crisisarchive reading
198469.7Strainarchive reading
198569.5Strainarchive reading
198669.4Strainarchive reading
198769.3Strainarchive reading
198869.2Strainarchive reading
198969.4Strainarchive reading
199080.8Crisisarchive reading
199172.6Strainarchive reading
199272.6Strainarchive reading
199373.7Strainarchive reading
199495.0Crisisarchive reading
199595.0Crisisarchive reading
199684.9Crisisarchive reading
199791.3Crisisarchive reading
199890.4Crisisarchive reading
199981.4Crisisarchive reading
200084.4Crisisarchive reading
200180.2Crisisarchive reading
200279.8Strainarchive reading
200379.3Strainarchive reading
200468.6Strainarchive reading
200576.7Strainarchive reading
200690.3Crisisarchive reading
200778.7Strainarchive reading
200878.5Strainarchive reading
200977.9Strainarchive reading
201077.3Strainarchive reading
201188.6Crisisarchive reading
201267.2Strainarchive reading
201377.4Strainarchive reading
201488.4Crisisarchive reading
201576.8Strainarchive reading
201678.4Strainarchive reading
201777.9Strainarchive reading
201876.7Strainarchive reading
201966.6Strainarchive reading
202072.0Strainarchive reading
202171.4Strainarchive reading
202268.5Strainarchive reading
202368.5Strainarchive reading
202444.7Calmarchive reading
202519.1Calmarchive reading
Gambia · 2026 snapshot, frozen 10 July 2026
Snapshot yearScore on the separate 2026 scaleIndependent archived crisis categoryRecord
202619.1Calmarchive reading

Years like now

3 similar years · Closest: Solomon Islands, 2015

Details

SLB, 2015

Published archive distance 0.4258. This similarity is not a forecast.

ARE, 2006

Published archive distance 0.4679. This similarity is not a forecast.

OMN, 1978

Published archive distance 0.4686. This similarity is not a forecast.

Last cycles

Last change: 17 Oct 2026, 1 field.

Details
Country change history for Gambia
CycleDateFields changedLayer distance from baselineRecord
date unavailable2026-10-280Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
17 Oct 20262026-10-171Identity: 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 20262026-08-146Identity: 0 · Economy: 1 · Politics: 0 · Events: 3 · 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 Economy80%
L3 Politics84%
L4 Events54%
L5 Information73%
L6 Society68%

Source: Hendeka record audit, snapshot 28 Oct 2026

Phase 1Confidence 71.1

Gambia in this snapshot

Gambia (GMB) records Calm pressure at 19.1 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 71.1.

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

Gambia has pressure score 19.1/100 in Calm. 173 of 206 public Atlas entries have a higher score; 1 share this score. Its competition rank is 174. This is the published snapshot, not the mapped historical scale.

Adjacent entries in score-descending order (ties by case-folded name, then ISO3): Suriname (SUR), 19.2/100, higher by 0.1; Estonia (EST), 19/100, lower by 0.1.

Gambia's highest decade mean is recorded in 1990-1999 (10 readings, mean 83.8). The lowest is 1946-1949 (4 readings, mean 56.3). Calendar decades use available years only; edge decades are partial. These means are calculated from published mapped scores, not the latest pressure scores.

Gambia: published archive aggregates by calendar decade
Observed yearsReadingsMeanMinimumMaximumAt or above 80
1946-1949456.345.859.80
1950-19591076.275.776.80
1960-19691064.456.975.70
1970-19791066.660.573.20
1980-19891071.369.281.91
1990-19991083.872.6957
2000-20091079.468.690.33
2010-20191077.566.688.62
2020-2025657.419.1720

Across 80 annual readings (1946-2025), Gambia's mapped-score peak is 95 in 1994-1995; the minimum is 19.1 in 2025.

Gambia is at or above the historical threshold 55 in 77 of 80 readings: 1946-1948, 1950-2023. The remaining 3 are below 55.

Gambia is at or above the historical threshold 65 in 62 of 80 readings: 1950-1961, 1965, 1971, 1976-2023. The remaining 18 are below 65.

Gambia is at or above the historical threshold 80 in 13 of 80 readings: 1983, 1990, 1994-2001, 2006, 2011, 2014. The remaining 67 are below 80.

The latest observed annual historical-band change for Gambia is 2023 to 2024: Strain (68.5) to Calm (44.7). This compares annual historical readings; it does not describe a change between published country snapshots.

Gambia 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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