38 Percent of the World to Experience<br />Civil Unrest in 2020, Study Says In 2019, nearly a quarter of the<br />world’s countries experienced<br />a surge in civil unrest. A recent study published by Verisk Maplecroft has<br />predicted that those surges will continue in 2020. According to their research, 75 of the<br />world’s countries will experience violence<br />and break-out demonstrations in 2020. That’s nearly 40 percent of the<br />195 countries in the world. Their analysis is based on both predicted rises<br />in unrest as well as the predicted risk posed<br />by a country's security forces against protesters. Study Author,<br />via ‘Daily Mail’ Countries such as Ukraine, Guinea Bissau<br />and Tajikistan are forecasted to experience<br />the biggest rises in unrest in 2020. However, researchers are more concerned<br />about the civil unrest in larger countries, such<br />as Russia, Saudi Arabia and China. These countries displayed high risk of backlash by<br />security forces over the course of the next six months. Verisk Maplecroft also predicted that Hong Kong and<br />Chile will not find peace for at least the next two years,<br />as they were deemed the “riskiest locations” in 2019.
