Across regions, Generation Z is reshaping how political dissent emerges. Digitally connected, globally influenced, and increasingly disillusioned with traditional institutions, young people are redefining what protest looks like in the 2020s. Their movements can escalate quickly — from online mobilisation to coordinated action on the streets — yet the conditions that make this possible often build quietly over time.

The Gen Z Global Protest Risk Index was created to help analysts, risk managers, and strategy teams understand those underlying conditions. It measures where youth-led unrest is structurally most likely to emerge or intensify, drawing on data across five pillars: demographics, socio-economics, governance, digital engagement, and protest incidence.

Unlike simple event counts, the Index identifies the potential for mobilisation by analysing the social and political environments that enable it. This approach highlights countries that are already active, those that are structurally primed but not yet mobilised, and those that remain genuinely low-risk.

Explore the Dashboard

The new Gen Z Protest Risk Dashboard translates the Index into an interactive, visual format. Users can explore country rankings, compare indicators, and interpret where generational pressures are converging to create new forms of instability.

The prototype is now live as part of Insight Forward’s broader effort to quantify how generational change is reshaping political stability worldwide.