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Honduras
1.7% annual new-conflict probability
How to read these probabilities: Scores estimate the probability of a new armed conflict starting within the next 12 months. Ongoing conflicts can have a saturation effect, reducing the modelled probability of an additional conflict onset. A low or falling score does not imply less severe ongoing fighting or a safer country.
11.01M
$39.6B
HNL
Tegucigalpa
112.49K km²
Spanish
Risk assessment
Risk profile
Honduras has a 1.7% 12-month probability of a new armed-conflict onset, a low risk. The level reflects a history of political violence, the 2009 coup, contested elections, entrenched criminal groups, institutional weakness, and limited state capacity in parts of the country. These factors leave channels for localised armed escalation, while Honduras has not experienced a sustained civil war in recent decades.
Recent reporting supplied for review contains no specific development indicating an imminent new conflict on Honduran territory. The principal domestic risks would involve state security forces, political factions, organised criminal groups, or armed local networks; cross-border developments would matter chiefly if they produced fighting inside Honduras. No prediction market is available for Honduras.
The largest uncertainty is whether political or criminal confrontation could cross from coercion and episodic violence into sustained organised fighting. Risk would rise with a contested transfer of power, a coup attempt, coordinated attacks on state institutions, or territorial clashes involving security forces and armed groups. It would remain lower if political competition stays institutional and security tensions do not consolidate into organised armed confrontation.
Strategic reasoning
- Honduras’s coup history, political polarisation, weak institutions, and entrenched criminal violence provide pathways to escalation, but the absence of a recent civil war or insurgency supports the low classification.
- Organised crime and state-security tensions are relevant context, yet ongoing criminal violence does not by itself constitute a new armed-conflict onset without sustained fighting between organised domestic actors.
- Institutional political competition and the continued operation of state structures are stabilising factors; a breakdown around elections or a major security crisis would be the clearest escalatory trigger.
Critical indicators
- In June 2009, President Manuel Zelaya was removed in a military-backed coup, demonstrating that severe political disputes can generate extra-constitutional confrontation and security-force involvement.
- The disputed 2017 presidential election produced protests and allegations of irregularities, illustrating how electoral disputes can intensify political violence even when they do not develop into sustained armed conflict.
Probability trend
How the Honduras estimate has moved
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Current conflicts
Source: UCDP
No active conflicts in Honduras.
Regional context
Honduras compared with its neighbours and region
Honduras ranks number 92 of 196 in new conflict outbreak risk.
Land neighbours
Central America
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