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Palestine, State of

Palestine, State of has a Crisis pressure reading, near the top of the ranking.

🔴 Crisis

85 / 100

#5 of 206

Chance of a conflict escalation in Palestine in November or December 2026: 14% · possible

Chance of a conflict escalation in Palestine 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 Palestine, or with Palestine 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
14% · possible
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

Population5.4M
CapitalRamallah (de facto administrative); East Jerusalem claimed as capital
Area6.2k km²
GDP~$17.2B (2025)
CurrencyIsraeli new shekel; Jordanian dinar and US dollar also circulate
LanguagesArabic
Armed forces0 (2020)
L1 Identity
n/a · identity, no pressure reading
L2 Economy
65.07
L3 Politics
89.25
L4 Events
65.67
L5 Information
63.79
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 89.5 (1950s); lowest 59.3 (2010s).

Details

Recorded events 2 · Country record

  • 2005election
  • 1996election

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.

Palestine, State of · historical scale through 2025
YearMapped historical scoreHistorical bandRecord
194682.0Crisisarchive reading
194782.0Crisisarchive reading
194882.0Crisisarchive reading
194989.1Crisisarchive reading
195094.1Crisisarchive reading
195194.0Crisisarchive reading
195289.4Crisisarchive reading
195388.4Crisisarchive reading
195488.5Crisisarchive reading
195588.5Crisisarchive reading
195688.4Crisisarchive reading
195788.1Crisisarchive reading
195888.0Crisisarchive reading
195987.8Crisisarchive reading
196087.7Crisisarchive reading
196187.7Crisisarchive reading
196287.7Crisisarchive reading
196387.4Crisisarchive reading
196487.3Crisisarchive reading
196587.2Crisisarchive reading
196687.1Crisisarchive reading
196789.7Crisisarchive reading
196890.7Crisisarchive reading
196990.5Crisisarchive reading
197088.5Crisisarchive reading
197171.4Strainarchive reading
197271.2Strainarchive reading
197389.5Crisisarchive reading
197471.0Strainarchive reading
197571.1Strainarchive reading
197670.8Strainarchive reading
197789.2Crisisarchive reading
197870.5Strainarchive reading
197989.1Crisisarchive reading
198072.0Strainarchive reading
198190.8Crisisarchive reading
198272.1Strainarchive reading
198391.0Crisisarchive reading
198472.3Strainarchive reading
198591.2Crisisarchive reading
198672.1Strainarchive reading
198791.4Crisisarchive reading
198891.5Crisisarchive reading
198968.2Strainarchive reading
199068.1Strainarchive reading
199183.1Crisisarchive reading
199267.8Strainarchive reading
199366.3Strainarchive reading
199460.3Watcharchive reading
199559.2Watcharchive reading
199659.3Watcharchive reading
199759.1Watcharchive reading
199858.5Watcharchive reading
199958.4Watcharchive reading
200070.5Strainarchive reading
200170.9Strainarchive reading
200271.3Strainarchive reading
200359.0Watcharchive reading
200458.8Watcharchive reading
200558.7Watcharchive reading
200671.0Strainarchive reading
200775.0Strainarchive reading
200876.1Strainarchive reading
200975.4Strainarchive reading
201063.4Watcharchive reading
201157.8Watcharchive reading
201257.7Watcharchive reading
201357.2Watcharchive reading
201468.6Strainarchive reading
201558.3Watcharchive reading
201657.7Watcharchive reading
201758.1Watcharchive reading
201857.4Watcharchive reading
201956.6Watcharchive reading
202069.3Strainarchive reading
202161.6Watcharchive reading
202262.8Watcharchive reading
202362.0Watcharchive reading
202477.2Strainarchive reading
202551.8Calmarchive reading
Palestine, State of · 2026 snapshot, frozen 10 July 2026
Snapshot yearScore on the separate 2026 scaleIndependent archived crisis categoryRecord
202685.0Crisisarchive reading

Years like now

3 similar years · Closest: Fiji, 1982

Details

FJI, 1982

Published archive distance 0.2559. This similarity is not a forecast.

BGR, 1989

Published archive distance 0.3441. This similarity is not a forecast.

CYP, 1960

Published archive distance 0.3601. This similarity is not a forecast.

Last cycles

Last change: 27 Aug 2026, 2 fields.

Details
Country change history for Palestine, State 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 20262026-10-170Identity: 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: 1 · Information: 1 · Society: 0Reconstructed from archived cycle files
14 Aug 20262026-08-144Identity: 0 · Economy: 1 · Politics: 0 · Events: 2 · Information: 0 · Society: 1Reconstructed from archived cycle files
2 Aug 20262026-08-021Identity: 0 · Economy: 1 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Reconstructed from archived cycle files
29 Jul 20262026-07-29T13:40:26Z0Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · 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 Identity55%
L2 Economy45%
L3 Politics94%
L4 Events48%
L5 Information87%
L6 Society57%

Source: Hendeka record audit, snapshot 28 Oct 2026

Phase 4Confidence 62.6

Palestine, State of in this snapshot

Palestine, State of (PSE) records Crisis pressure at 85.0 of 100 and touches 0 mapped pressure points.

The recorded country pattern is crisis; its numbered pressure band is 4. 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; 81 archive readings. Identity is descriptive; absent readings are named beside each layer.

Palestine, State of has pressure score 85/100 in Crisis. 4 of 206 public Atlas entries have a higher score; 4 share this score. Its competition rank is 5. This is the published snapshot, not the mapped historical scale.

Adjacent entries in score-descending order (ties by case-folded name, then ISO3): Lebanon (LBN), 85/100, tied; South Sudan (SSD), 85/100, tied.

Palestine, State of's highest decade mean is recorded in 1950-1959 (10 readings, mean 89.5). The lowest is 2010-2019 (10 readings, mean 59.3). Calendar decades use available years only; edge decades are partial. These means are calculated from published mapped scores, not the latest pressure scores.

Palestine, State of: published archive aggregates by calendar decade
Observed yearsReadingsMeanMinimumMaximumAt or above 80
1946-1949483.88289.14
1950-19591089.587.894.110
1960-19691088.387.190.710
1970-19791078.270.589.54
1980-19891081.368.291.55
1990-1999106458.483.11
2000-20091068.758.776.10
2010-20191059.356.668.60
2020-2025664.151.877.20

Across 80 annual readings (1946-2025), Palestine, State of's mapped-score peak is 94.1 in 1950; the minimum is 51.8 in 2025.

Palestine, State of is at or above the historical threshold 55 in 79 of 80 readings: 1946-2024. The remaining 1 are below 55.

Palestine, State of is at or above the historical threshold 65 in 58 of 80 readings: 1946-1993, 2000-2002, 2006-2009, 2014, 2020, 2024. The remaining 22 are below 65.

Palestine, State of is at or above the historical threshold 80 in 34 of 80 readings: 1946-1970, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987-1988, 1991. The remaining 46 are below 80.

The latest observed annual historical-band change for Palestine, State of is 2024 to 2025: Strain (77.2) to Calm (51.8). This compares annual historical readings; it does not describe a change between published country snapshots.

Palestine, State 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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