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Serbia has a Watch pressure reading, in the middle half.

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58 / 100

#59 of 206

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

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

Population6.5M
CapitalBelgrade
Area84.1k km² land
GDP~$100B (2025)
CurrencyRSD
LanguagesSerbian
Armed forces32k (2020)
L1 Identity
n/a · identity, no pressure reading
L2 Economy
40
L3 Politics
70
L4 Events
51.1
L5 Information
69.26
L6 Society
55.17

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 86.6 (1946-1949); lowest 45.6 (1980s).

Details

Recorded events 35 · Country record

  • 15 Mar 2025street pressure
  • 1 Dec 2024external support
  • 1 Dec 2022external support
  • 2022election
  • 1 Jun 2021external support
  • 12 Jan 2019street pressure
  • 22 Dec 2018street pressure
  • 1 Jul 2018external support
  • 2017election
  • 1 Feb 2015external support
  • 2015currency stress
  • 2012election
Show all 35
  • 1 Sep 2011external support
  • 29 May 2011street pressure
  • 1 Jan 2009external support
  • 2009currency stress
  • 29 Jul 2008street pressure
  • 2008election
  • 2004election
  • 2003election
  • 2002election
  • 2001currency stress
  • 2000currency stress
  • 2000election
  • 1999currency stress
  • 31 Mar 1998new sanctions
  • 1998currency stress
  • 1997currency stress
  • 1996currency stress
  • 1995currency stress
  • 1993currency stress
  • 1992currency stress
  • 1992sovereign stress
  • 1992election
  • 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.

Serbia · historical scale through 2025
YearMapped historical scoreHistorical bandRecord
194691.7Crisisarchive reading
194791.7Crisisarchive reading
194891.7Crisisarchive reading
194971.3Strainarchive reading
195055.7Watcharchive reading
195154.6Calmarchive reading
195270.0Strainarchive reading
195369.2Strainarchive reading
195468.6Strainarchive reading
195567.9Strainarchive reading
195668.3Strainarchive reading
195767.0Strainarchive reading
195867.2Strainarchive reading
195965.4Strainarchive reading
196065.3Strainarchive reading
196165.0Strainarchive reading
196264.6Watcharchive reading
196363.7Watcharchive reading
196462.8Watcharchive reading
196562.7Watcharchive reading
196662.1Watcharchive reading
196761.7Watcharchive reading
196861.6Watcharchive reading
196960.2Watcharchive reading
197060.0Watcharchive reading
197171.6Strainarchive reading
197271.1Strainarchive reading
197370.1Strainarchive reading
197468.6Strainarchive reading
197568.1Strainarchive reading
197667.5Strainarchive reading
197766.2Strainarchive reading
197865.2Strainarchive reading
197963.6Watcharchive reading
198056.3Watcharchive reading
198145.6Calmarchive reading
198245.0Calmarchive reading
198347.2Calmarchive reading
198444.4Calmarchive reading
198544.5Calmarchive reading
198642.1Calmarchive reading
198743.7Calmarchive reading
198844.9Calmarchive reading
198942.6Calmarchive reading
199054.1Calmarchive reading
199163.4Watcharchive reading
199277.9Strainarchive reading
199379.5Strainarchive reading
199467.9Strainarchive reading
199567.7Strainarchive reading
199666.3Strainarchive reading
199766.0Strainarchive reading
199866.9Strainarchive reading
199978.6Strainarchive reading
200066.7Strainarchive reading
200163.5Watcharchive reading
200263.3Watcharchive reading
200363.4Watcharchive reading
200462.5Watcharchive reading
200562.0Watcharchive reading
200670.4Strainarchive reading
200768.8Strainarchive reading
200873.3Strainarchive reading
200983.5Crisisarchive reading
201070.8Strainarchive reading
201172.3Strainarchive reading
201282.8Crisisarchive reading
201374.2Strainarchive reading
201489.9Crisisarchive reading
201576.9Strainarchive reading
201672.3Strainarchive reading
201769.2Strainarchive reading
201869.5Strainarchive reading
201964.7Watcharchive reading
202067.8Strainarchive reading
202167.0Strainarchive reading
202265.4Strainarchive reading
202364.9Watcharchive reading
202433.3Calmarchive reading
202555.0Watcharchive reading
Serbia · 2026 snapshot, frozen 10 July 2026
Snapshot yearScore on the separate 2026 scaleIndependent archived crisis categoryRecord
202658.0Watcharchive reading

Years like now

3 similar years · Closest: Costa Rica, 2007

Details

CRI, 2007

Published archive distance 0.2071. This similarity is not a forecast.

PAN, 2011

Published archive distance 0.2492. This similarity is not a forecast.

BWA, 2009

Published archive distance 0.2757. This similarity is not a forecast.

Last cycles

Last change: 6 Oct 2026, 1 field.

Details
Country change history for Serbia
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 20262026-10-061Identity: 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 20262026-08-270Identity: 0 · Economy: 0 · Politics: 0 · Events: 0 · Information: 0 · Society: 0Reconstructed from archived cycle files
14 Aug 20262026-08-143Identity: 0 · Economy: 1 · Politics: 0 · Events: 1 · Information: 0 · Society: 1Reconstructed from archived cycle files
2 Aug 20262026-08-021Identity: 1 · 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 Economy45%
L3 Politics100%
L4 Events42%
L5 Information40%
L6 Society70%

Source: Hendeka record audit, snapshot 28 Oct 2026

Phase 2Confidence 62

Serbia in this snapshot

Serbia (SRB) records Watch pressure at 58.0 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 62.0.

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.

Serbia has pressure score 58/100 in Watch. 58 of 206 public Atlas entries have a higher score; 11 share this score. Its competition rank is 59. This is the published snapshot, not the mapped historical scale.

Adjacent entries in score-descending order (ties by case-folded name, then ISO3): Senegal (SEN), 58/100, tied; Sierra Leone (SLE), 58/100, tied.

Serbia's highest decade mean is recorded in 1946-1949 (4 readings, mean 86.6). The lowest is 1980-1989 (10 readings, mean 45.6). Calendar decades use available years only; edge decades are partial. These means are calculated from published mapped scores, not the latest pressure scores.

Serbia: published archive aggregates by calendar decade
Observed yearsReadingsMeanMinimumMaximumAt or above 80
1946-1949486.671.391.73
1950-19591065.454.6700
1960-1969106360.265.30
1970-19791067.26071.60
1980-19891045.642.156.30
1990-19991068.854.179.50
2000-20091067.76283.51
2010-20191074.364.789.92
2020-2025658.933.367.80

Across 80 annual readings (1946-2025), Serbia's mapped-score peak is 91.7 in 1946-1948; the minimum is 33.3 in 2024.

Serbia is at or above the historical threshold 55 in 68 of 80 readings: 1946-1950, 1952-1980, 1991-2023, 2025. The remaining 12 are below 55.

Serbia is at or above the historical threshold 65 in 47 of 80 readings: 1946-1949, 1952-1961, 1971-1978, 1992-2000, 2006-2018, 2020-2022. The remaining 33 are below 65.

Serbia is at or above the historical threshold 80 in 6 of 80 readings: 1946-1948, 2009, 2012, 2014. The remaining 74 are below 80.

The latest observed annual historical-band change for Serbia is 2024 to 2025: Calm (33.3) to Watch (55). This compares annual historical readings; it does not describe a change between published country snapshots.

Serbia 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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