An interactive index of unrest in the Arab worldSINCE our "shoe-thrower's index" was published on February 9th, Bahrain and, most prominently, Libya, have continued to witness further unrest and demand for regime change.
From 1968 to 1980, a period that included racial unrest, excessive inflation, the misery index, an oil embargo, gasoline shortages, auto manufacturing innovations (i.e. technology), and a host of social and economic challenges, the global significance of the U.S. economy had sharply declined.
In a region that frequently tops quality-of-life indexes, such social unrest has left police officers scratching their heads as they struggle to find the root cause of the fires.
One of the main reasons cited when London came third from bottom in this livability index was the threat of civil unrest, and a repeat of the 2011 riots.
There are plenty of reasons for unrest in Lesotho, ranked 158th out of 187 on the UN's human development index.
Fueled by unrest in Brazil and a sluggish economy in China, the broad MSCI emerging-markets index is down 14% this year.
Human Development Index 2009 with ineffective social services, a weak civil society and political unrest (Report for the Disasters Emergency Committee, 2011).
The Economist has expanded upon its static Shoe-Thrower's Index with an interactive graph, so that it now instantly recalculates the "index of unrest" for each of the seventeen countries based on how much weight users give to factors such as the number of years the ruler has been in power, per cent of the population under the age of twenty-five, andemocraticinstitutionsons.
The index looks at a number of factors, including stability, healthcare, environment, education and social unrest.
This year, even with prices stabilising, the food price index remains at 210 – which some experts believe is the threshold beyond which civil unrest becomes probable.
