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Latvia

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

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17.1 / 100

#185 of 206

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

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

Population1.8M
CapitalRiga
Area64.6k km²
GDP$48.6B (2025)
CurrencyEUR
LanguagesLatvian
Armed forces9k (2020)
L1 Identity
n/a · identity, no pressure reading
L2 Economy
21.98
L3 Politics
34.83
L4 Events
22.5
L5 Information
16.63
L6 Society
54.83

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 74.8 (1973-1973); lowest 21.6 (2020-2025).

Details

Recorded events 18 · Country record

  • 13 Jan 2009street pressure
  • 2009sovereign stress
  • 1 Dec 2008external support
  • 1 May 2004street pressure
  • 5 Feb 2004street pressure
  • 1 Apr 2001external support
  • 1 Dec 1999external support
  • 28 May 1999street pressure
  • 1 Oct 1997external support
  • 1 May 1996external support
  • 15 Dec 1995street pressure
  • 1 Apr 1995external support
Show all 18
  • 1995currency stress
  • 1994currency stress
  • 1 Dec 1993external support
  • 1993currency 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.

Latvia · historical scale through 2025
YearMapped historical scoreHistorical bandRecord
197374.8Strainarchive reading
198070.4Strainarchive reading
198169.5Strainarchive reading
198268.6Strainarchive reading
198368.0Strainarchive reading
198467.2Strainarchive reading
198568.3Strainarchive reading
198667.7Strainarchive reading
198768.1Strainarchive reading
198866.8Strainarchive reading
198956.8Watcharchive reading
199055.1Watcharchive reading
199175.2Strainarchive reading
199275.6Strainarchive reading
199369.4Strainarchive reading
199458.3Watcharchive reading
199567.6Strainarchive reading
199657.4Watcharchive reading
199756.7Watcharchive reading
199856.1Watcharchive reading
199955.7Watcharchive reading
200055.2Watcharchive reading
200153.3Calmarchive reading
200250.8Calmarchive reading
200347.5Calmarchive reading
200444.3Calmarchive reading
200540.1Calmarchive reading
200636.5Calmarchive reading
200736.1Calmarchive reading
200859.6Watcharchive reading
200974.0Strainarchive reading
201059.5Watcharchive reading
201131.9Calmarchive reading
201229.5Calmarchive reading
201327.7Calmarchive reading
201427.3Calmarchive reading
201527.0Calmarchive reading
201627.5Calmarchive reading
201727.4Calmarchive reading
201828.2Calmarchive reading
201922.3Calmarchive reading
202036.4Calmarchive reading
202117.4Calmarchive reading
202217.1Calmarchive reading
202324.5Calmarchive reading
202417.3Calmarchive reading
202517.1Calmarchive reading
Latvia · 2026 snapshot, frozen 10 July 2026
Snapshot yearScore on the separate 2026 scaleIndependent archived crisis categoryRecord
202617.1Calmarchive reading

Years like now

3 similar years · Closest: Denmark, 1999

Details

DNK, 1999

Published archive distance 0.2037. This similarity is not a forecast.

AUT, 2006

Published archive distance 0.2214. This similarity is not a forecast.

CAN, 2006

Published archive distance 0.2249. This similarity is not a forecast.

Last cycles

Last change: 17 Oct 2026, 1 field.

Details
Country change history for Latvia
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 20262026-10-063Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 2 · 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 20262026-08-144Identity: 0 · Economy: 1 · Politics: 0 · Events: 1 · 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 20262026-07-29T13:40:26Z3Identity: 0 · Economy: 2 · Politics: 0 · Events: 1 · 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 1Confidence 65.4

Latvia in this snapshot

Latvia (LVA) records Calm pressure at 17.1 of 100 and touches 0 mapped pressure points.

The recorded country pattern is stable; its numbered pressure band is 1. 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; 48 archive readings. Identity is descriptive; absent readings are named beside each layer.

Latvia has pressure score 17.1/100 in Calm. 184 of 206 public Atlas entries have a higher score; 1 share this score. Its competition rank is 185. This is the published snapshot, not the mapped historical scale.

Adjacent entries in score-descending order (ties by case-folded name, then ISO3): Malta (MLT), 17.5/100, higher by 0.4; Uruguay (URY), 16.4/100, lower by 0.7.

Latvia's highest decade mean is recorded in 1973-1973 (1 readings, mean 74.8). The lowest is 2020-2025 (6 readings, mean 21.6). Calendar decades use available years only; edge decades are partial. These means are calculated from published mapped scores, not the latest pressure scores.

Latvia: published archive aggregates by calendar decade
Observed yearsReadingsMeanMinimumMaximumAt or above 80
1973-1973174.874.874.80
1980-19891067.156.870.40
1990-19991062.755.175.60
2000-20091049.736.1740
2010-20191030.822.359.50
2020-2025621.617.136.40

Across 47 annual readings (1973-2025), Latvia's mapped-score peak is 75.6 in 1992; the minimum is 17.1 in 2022, 2025.

Latvia is at or above the historical threshold 55 in 25 of 47 readings: 1973, 1980-2000, 2008-2010. The remaining 22 are below 55.

Latvia is at or above the historical threshold 65 in 15 of 47 readings: 1973, 1980-1988, 1991-1993, 1995, 2009. The remaining 32 are below 65.

Latvia never reaches the historical threshold 80 in the 47 published annual readings.

The latest observed annual historical-band change for Latvia is 2010 to 2011: Watch (59.5) to Calm (31.9). This compares annual historical readings; it does not describe a change between published country snapshots.

Latvia 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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