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Geopolitical Risk Index (daily)

Daily Geopolitical Risk index (Caldara-Iacoviello), 1985 onward.

248.7 on Oct 19, 2026+73.4 since Dec 12, 2025
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5-year rangeThe highest and lowest readings of the last five years, as a band. One-series charts only.High and lowMarks the highest and lowest readings in the window shown.
Current·Data to Oct 19, 2026

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.

Continuation · the recent trend, flattening · 30 days

Dashed: the projection from the latest reading. Shaded: the range about two in three outcomes land in. A projection, not a promise.

What this chart reads

Sources

Geopolitical Risk Index (daily). Source: Palanor downloads the Caldara-Iacoviello data files, compiled by Federal Reserve Board staff from automated text searches of ten major newspapers and released under CC BY 4.0.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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