World Tension Index
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What the score means
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Engine update 2026-10-30 09:30 UTCDaily brief
The daily stress score is sitting at 61 today, staying in the moderate zone with no change from yesterday. Higher energy costs are still the main reason things feel a bit tense, with oil at 111.5 and gold at 4020. For our day-to-day lives, this stability means prices at the pump and delivery costs aren't spiking further right now, giving us a steady morning. headline news like opposition accusations against Netanyahu continues in the background without pushing today's overall number up or down.
Written from the numbers the engine computed this cycle — every figure above is the engine's own.
AI Risk Index25
Calm. AI news is routine — product launches and policy talk, no safety incidents of note.
What it adds up to
derived from the indexes above · engine v4.5.1Inflation Pressure Index37
Calm. -4.5 vs 30d World markets are not pushing up your cost of living right now.
Country tension map
178 countries in the news · liveTension Indexes
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Active Conflicts
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Regional Tension
Details →Understanding World Tension Meter
WorldTensionMeter combines conflict monitoring, commodity markets, financial stress and global media coverage into one daily score — a macro-risk thermometer for the global economy. Full analysis runs twice daily, market data refreshes every ten minutes, and everything on this site is free with no account required.
Data collection
Every cycle pulls from public data sources across four worlds: our own global news monitoring (40+ sources), event-level conflict records, commodity and financial market feeds, and major world news wires.
Scoring engine
Each signal is normalized to a 0–100 scale against its own multi-year history, so a reading of 70 means today genuinely ranks in the top third of its own multi-year history — not that a keyword list fired.
Published record
Scores publish twice daily at 00:10 and 12:10 UTC. Every daily value is appended to a permanent ledger and never edited, building a historical archive you can audit on the History pages.