ConflictMeter country profile

United Kingdom

CURRENT GLOBAL FULL

United Kingdom has a validated current Global FULL score and rank.

GBREurope & Central AsiaSnapshot 2026-09-28
0255075100

76.17Global score · FULL coverage
#9of 81 current Global FULL countries

Green, amber and red are display colours only—not calibrated probability or methodological risk thresholds.

The reading explained

What is driving the reading

Very strong recorded mobilisation is the defining feature alongside substantial structural Pressure. Economic and narrative adjustments add relatively little to the already high base; the reading is not a measure of violent activity.

Pressure and Activation produce a base of 75.37; economic and narrative adjustments bring the Global reading to 76.17.

What to watch

Watch whether participation remains broad and peaceful or becomes more persistent, coercive or concentrated around unresolved grievances. Fresh, comparable attitude and confidence evidence matters; lower turnout alone would not establish that concerns have eased.

Snapshot: 28 September 2026. Archived comparisons refer to the 2025 Vintage baseline and may include source or coverage revisions. How the index works.

What ConflictMeter measures

How to read this country's ConflictMeter result

ConflictMeter measures how closely current conditions in a country align with the conditions that Professor David Betz argues make large-scale civil unrest and internal political conflict more likely. A higher score means stronger alignment with those conditions. It is not a percentage probability, a prediction that conflict will occur, or a forecast of when it might occur.

ConflictMeter is an independent operationalisation of Betz's published theories; the index itself is not produced or endorsed by Professor Betz.

Current reading

Public score anatomy

United Kingdom's current Global index is 76.17, ranked 9 of 81 FULL-coverage countries.

Pressure
58.35
Current public value
Activation
97.36
Current public value
Base
75.37
Current public value
Economic pressure
4.56
Current public value
Narrative fragmentation
28.10
Current public value

Public metric profile

A visual comparison of the six public 0–100 index measures for this country.

Global
76.17
Pressure
58.35
Activation
97.36
Base
75.37
Economic pressure
4.56
Narrative fragmentation
28.10
Index values, not probabilities. Bar length is descriptive only.
Enhanced score
76.11
Enhanced rank 2 of 30

Deterministic interpretation

Activation is the highest available current top-level value.

Economic pressure is the lowest available current top-level value.

Index, not probability. ConflictMeter describes conflict-associated conditions; the score is not a percentage probability of violence or unrest.
Structural Pressure

Three gated structural constructs

Public pages identify the constructs without publishing exact P1/P2/P3 values or underlying evidence.

P1

Status reversal / demographic pressure

Status reversal and demographic pressure construct.

Exact value/evidence in Country Intelligence Report
P2

Factionalism

Factionalism and organised group-division construct.

Exact value/evidence in Country Intelligence Report
P3

Loss of faith

Loss-of-faith and institutional confidence construct.

Exact value/evidence in Country Intelligence Report
Authorised history

Public component evidence

Pre-2025 values are component history only; no retrospective ConflictMeter headline score is inferred.

VINTAGE component history

Activation

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Vintage and Reconstructed

This chart shows the authorised historical Vintage observations available for public comparison. Reconstructed estimates are kept separate; missing observations are not filled from other datasets.

2025 Vintage → current

Score and rank movement

2025 Vintage rank
4/80
Authorised baseline
Current rank
9/81
Current Global FULL
Rank movement
-5.00
DOWN
Score delta
-0.51
Current minus 2025 Vintage
Rank movement uses baseline rank minus current rank. UP means toward rank 1; DOWN means away from rank 1. Neither is a desirability judgment. Ranking-universe changed: YES.
Source diagnostics

Revision sensitivity and exposure

Current Revision Sensitivity

Latest-year 2025 paired revision evidence.

LOW

Historical Revision Exposure

Paired revision evidence across 2021–2025.

HIGH

Source diagnostics only; not ConflictMeter risk components or uncertainty scores.
Evidence boundary

Freshness and provenance

Current freshness
Not assessable

Source-by-source freshness cannot be assessed from the current published dataset. Historical component points retain their recorded release dates and evidence age.

Deeper country analysis

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ConflictMeter · Public country page reference · Betz v13.15 · Index, not probability
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