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Moldova, Republic of

Moldova, Republic of has a Watch pressure reading, in the middle half.

🟡 Watch

55 / 100

#73 of 206

Chance of a conflict escalation in Moldova in November or December 2026: 0.7% · remote

Chance of a conflict escalation in Moldova 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 Moldova, or with Moldova 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
0.7% · 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

Population2.4M
CapitalChișinău
Area33.8k km²
GDP$20.4B (2025)
CurrencyMDL
LanguagesMoldavian
Armed forces6k (2020)
L1 Identity
n/a · identity, no pressure reading
L2 Economy
49.25
L3 Politics
69.25
L4 Events
44.4
L5 Information
48.57
L6 Society
79.17

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 (1973-1973); lowest 56.9 (2020-2025).

Details

Recorded events 40 · Country record

  • 2024election
  • 2022sovereign stress
  • 1 Dec 2021external support
  • 2020election
  • 24 Mar 2018street pressure
  • 1 Nov 2016external support
  • 21 Jan 2016street pressure
  • 2016election
  • 4 Oct 2015street pressure
  • 6 Sep 2015street pressure
  • 3 May 2015street pressure
  • 2015currency stress
Show all 40
  • 23 Nov 2013street pressure
  • 1 Jan 2010external support
  • 7 Apr 2009street pressure
  • 1 May 2006external support
  • 13 Feb 2002street pressure
  • 9 Jan 2002street pressure
  • 1 Dec 2000external support
  • 17 Apr 2000street pressure
  • 20 Mar 2000street pressure
  • 1999currency stress
  • 4 Dec 1998street pressure
  • 1 May 1996external support
  • 1996currency stress
  • 1996election
  • 20 Oct 1995street pressure
  • 1 Mar 1995external support
  • 1995currency stress
  • 1994currency stress
  • 10 Dec 1993street pressure
  • 1 Dec 1993external support
  • 1993currency stress
  • 1993sovereign stress
  • Jun 1992conflict escalation
  • 1992currency stress
  • 20 Aug 1991street pressure
  • 1991currency stress
  • 1991election
  • 1990election

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.

Moldova, Republic of · historical scale through 2025
YearMapped historical scoreHistorical bandRecord
197395.0Crisisarchive reading
198094.8Crisisarchive reading
198192.7Crisisarchive reading
198290.7Crisisarchive reading
198389.4Crisisarchive reading
198489.2Crisisarchive reading
198593.2Crisisarchive reading
198691.0Crisisarchive reading
198791.2Crisisarchive reading
198891.7Crisisarchive reading
198967.7Strainarchive reading
199072.0Strainarchive reading
199195.0Crisisarchive reading
199293.9Crisisarchive reading
199392.7Crisisarchive reading
199492.7Crisisarchive reading
199591.0Crisisarchive reading
199690.5Crisisarchive reading
199777.2Strainarchive reading
199892.3Crisisarchive reading
199993.7Crisisarchive reading
200083.3Crisisarchive reading
200179.5Strainarchive reading
200279.7Strainarchive reading
200378.9Strainarchive reading
200474.9Strainarchive reading
200577.4Strainarchive reading
200677.7Strainarchive reading
200777.3Strainarchive reading
200873.7Strainarchive reading
200975.7Strainarchive reading
201058.3Watcharchive reading
201158.0Watcharchive reading
201269.8Strainarchive reading
201357.7Watcharchive reading
201460.4Watcharchive reading
201577.7Strainarchive reading
201665.8Strainarchive reading
201761.6Watcharchive reading
201858.3Watcharchive reading
201948.4Calmarchive reading
202060.1Watcharchive reading
202133.3Calmarchive reading
202266.6Strainarchive reading
202361.9Watcharchive reading
202458.4Watcharchive reading
202561.3Watcharchive reading
Moldova, Republic of · 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: United Kingdom, 1972

Details

GBR, 1972

Published archive distance 0.2921. This similarity is not a forecast.

CRI, 2010

Published archive distance 0.3269. This similarity is not a forecast.

BTN, 2009

Published archive distance 0.3499. This similarity is not a forecast.

Last cycles

Last change: 17 Oct 2026, 1 field.

Details
Country change history for Moldova, Republic of
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 20262026-10-061Identity: 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: 1Reconstructed from archived cycle files
14 Aug 20262026-08-143Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 1 · Events: 1 · 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: 1 · 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 Economy66%
L3 Politics70%
L4 Events62%
L5 Information60%
L6 Society88%

Source: Hendeka record audit, snapshot 28 Oct 2026

Phase 2Confidence 68.6

Moldova, Republic of in this snapshot

Moldova, Republic of (MDA) 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 68.6.

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.

Moldova, Republic of 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): Lesotho (LSO), 55/100, tied; Peru (PER), 55/100, tied.

Moldova, Republic of's highest decade mean is recorded in 1973-1973 (1 readings, mean 95). The lowest is 2020-2025 (6 readings, mean 56.9). Calendar decades use available years only; edge decades are partial. These means are calculated from published mapped scores, not the latest pressure scores.

Moldova, Republic of: published archive aggregates by calendar decade
Observed yearsReadingsMeanMinimumMaximumAt or above 80
1973-197319595951
1980-19891089.267.794.89
1990-19991089.172958
2000-20091077.873.783.31
2010-20191061.648.477.70
2020-2025656.933.366.60

Across 47 annual readings (1973-2025), Moldova, Republic of's mapped-score peak is 95 in 1973, 1991; the minimum is 33.3 in 2021.

Moldova, Republic of is at or above the historical threshold 55 in 45 of 47 readings: 1973, 1980-2018, 2020, 2022-2025. The remaining 2 are below 55.

Moldova, Republic of is at or above the historical threshold 65 in 35 of 47 readings: 1973, 1980-2009, 2012, 2015-2016, 2022. The remaining 12 are below 65.

Moldova, Republic of is at or above the historical threshold 80 in 19 of 47 readings: 1973, 1980-1988, 1991-1996, 1998-2000. The remaining 28 are below 80.

The latest observed annual historical-band change for Moldova, Republic of is 2022 to 2023: Strain (66.6) to Watch (61.9). This compares annual historical readings; it does not describe a change between published country snapshots.

Moldova, Republic of 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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