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Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea has a Watch pressure reading, in the highest quarter.

🟡 Watch

62 / 100

#47 of 206

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

Chance of a conflict escalation in Equatorial Guinea 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 Equatorial Guinea, or with Equatorial Guinea 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

Population1.9M
CapitalMalabo
Area28.1k km²
GDP$12.8B (2025)
CurrencyXAF
LanguagesSpanish + more
Armed forces1k (2020)
L1 Identity
n/a · identity, no pressure reading
L2 Economy
73.5
L3 Politics
86.5
L4 Events
10.5
L5 Information
76.58
L6 Society
79

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 87.8 (1946-1949); lowest 65 (2000s).

Details

Recorded events 17 · Country record

  • 2022election
  • 1 Dec 2019external support
  • 2017sovereign stress
  • 2016election
  • 2009election
  • 2007sovereign stress
  • 2002election
  • 1 Jan 1996capital controls
  • 1996election
  • 1994currency stress
  • 1 Feb 1993external support
  • 1989election
Show all 17
  • 1982currency stress
  • 1982election
  • 1981currency stress
  • 1981sovereign stress
  • 1968election

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.

Equatorial Guinea · historical scale through 2025
YearMapped historical scoreHistorical bandRecord
194695.0Crisisarchive reading
194795.0Crisisarchive reading
194895.0Crisisarchive reading
194966.3Strainarchive reading
195087.0Crisisarchive reading
195186.9Crisisarchive reading
195286.8Crisisarchive reading
195386.7Crisisarchive reading
195486.4Crisisarchive reading
195586.4Crisisarchive reading
195686.3Crisisarchive reading
195786.3Crisisarchive reading
195886.3Crisisarchive reading
195986.1Crisisarchive reading
196084.4Crisisarchive reading
196167.2Strainarchive reading
196282.1Crisisarchive reading
196366.3Strainarchive reading
196465.4Strainarchive reading
196583.1Crisisarchive reading
196665.2Strainarchive reading
196765.1Strainarchive reading
196876.0Strainarchive reading
196980.7Crisisarchive reading
197095.0Crisisarchive reading
197184.6Crisisarchive reading
197285.1Crisisarchive reading
197385.8Crisisarchive reading
197480.3Crisisarchive reading
197578.3Strainarchive reading
197675.0Strainarchive reading
197774.4Strainarchive reading
197893.6Crisisarchive reading
197995.0Crisisarchive reading
198074.0Strainarchive reading
198184.4Crisisarchive reading
198282.3Crisisarchive reading
198382.1Crisisarchive reading
198482.0Crisisarchive reading
198581.6Crisisarchive reading
198695.0Crisisarchive reading
198782.0Crisisarchive reading
198881.9Crisisarchive reading
198992.7Crisisarchive reading
199079.1Strainarchive reading
199179.0Strainarchive reading
199279.3Strainarchive reading
199378.5Strainarchive reading
199478.3Strainarchive reading
199578.6Strainarchive reading
199677.9Strainarchive reading
199775.6Strainarchive reading
199874.8Strainarchive reading
199973.2Strainarchive reading
200072.4Strainarchive reading
200168.5Strainarchive reading
200268.5Strainarchive reading
200368.5Strainarchive reading
200468.5Strainarchive reading
200568.6Strainarchive reading
200655.7Watcharchive reading
200768.3Strainarchive reading
200855.5Watcharchive reading
200955.7Watcharchive reading
201066.6Strainarchive reading
201155.8Watcharchive reading
201255.8Watcharchive reading
201366.0Strainarchive reading
201455.5Watcharchive reading
201565.9Strainarchive reading
201665.6Strainarchive reading
201780.2Crisisarchive reading
201879.9Strainarchive reading
201982.7Crisisarchive reading
202077.8Strainarchive reading
202172.5Strainarchive reading
202272.8Strainarchive reading
202381.2Crisisarchive reading
202460.2Watcharchive reading
202572.4Strainarchive reading
Equatorial Guinea · 2026 snapshot, frozen 10 July 2026
Snapshot yearScore on the separate 2026 scaleIndependent archived crisis categoryRecord
202662.0Strainarchive reading

Years like now

3 similar years · Closest: Turkmenistan, 2013

Details

TKM, 2013

Published archive distance 0.1821. This similarity is not a forecast.

BGR, 2000

Published archive distance 0.2074. This similarity is not a forecast.

UZB, 2008

Published archive distance 0.2379. This similarity is not a forecast.

Last cycles

Last change: 27 Aug 2026, 2 fields.

Details
Country change history for Equatorial Guinea
CycleDateFields changedLayer distance from baselineRecord
date unavailable2026-10-280Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Original public record
17 Oct 20262026-10-170Identity: 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 20262026-08-272Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 1Reconstructed from archived cycle files
14 Aug 20262026-08-143Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 2 · Information: 1 · Society: 0Reconstructed 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 Economy78%
L3 Politics69%
L4 Events56%
L5 Information60%
L6 Society87%

Source: Hendeka record audit, snapshot 28 Oct 2026

Phase 2Confidence 69.7

Equatorial Guinea in this snapshot

Equatorial Guinea (GNQ) records Watch pressure at 62.0 of 100 and touches 0 mapped pressure points.

The recorded country pattern is stressed; its numbered pressure band is 2. The source confidence score is 69.7.

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.

Equatorial Guinea has pressure score 62/100 in Watch. 46 of 206 public Atlas entries have a higher score; 10 share this score. Its competition rank is 47. This is the published snapshot, not the mapped historical scale.

Adjacent entries in score-descending order (ties by case-folded name, then ISO3): Ecuador (ECU), 62/100, tied; Honduras (HND), 62/100, tied.

Equatorial Guinea's highest decade mean is recorded in 1946-1949 (4 readings, mean 87.8). The lowest is 2000-2009 (10 readings, mean 65). Calendar decades use available years only; edge decades are partial. These means are calculated from published mapped scores, not the latest pressure scores.

Equatorial Guinea: published archive aggregates by calendar decade
Observed yearsReadingsMeanMinimumMaximumAt or above 80
1946-1949487.866.3953
1950-19591086.586.18710
1960-19691073.565.184.44
1970-19791084.774.4957
1980-19891083.874959
1990-19991077.473.279.30
2000-2009106555.572.40
2010-20191067.455.582.72
2020-2025672.860.281.21

Across 80 annual readings (1946-2025), Equatorial Guinea's mapped-score peak is 95 in 1946-1948, 1970, 1979, 1986; the minimum is 55.5 in 2008, 2014.

Every published year for Equatorial Guinea, 1946-2025, is at or above the historical threshold 55: 80 of 80 readings.

Equatorial Guinea is at or above the historical threshold 65 in 73 of 80 readings: 1946-2005, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2015-2023, 2025. The remaining 7 are below 65.

Equatorial Guinea is at or above the historical threshold 80 in 36 of 80 readings: 1946-1948, 1950-1960, 1962, 1965, 1969-1974, 1978-1979, 1981-1989, 2017, 2019, 2023. The remaining 44 are below 80.

The latest observed annual historical-band change for Equatorial Guinea is 2024 to 2025: Watch (60.2) to Strain (72.4). This compares annual historical readings; it does not describe a change between published country snapshots.

Equatorial Guinea 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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