World Tension Index
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What the score means
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Engine update 2026-09-21 05:10 UTCDaily brief
The daily index is sitting at 63 today, which keeps us in the Moderate zone after going up by just 1 point. Trade is the main thing driving the score right now, alongside oil at 99.1 and gold at 4412. For everyday life, a steady number like this means prices, deliveries, and routine expenses should stay pretty familiar for now.
Written from the numbers the engine computed this cycle — every figure above is the engine's own.
AI Risk Index34
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 v4.4.2Inflation Pressure Index45
Stable. +8.8 vs 30d Mild upward pressure on prices from energy, food and freight. Nothing sharp.
Supply Chain Risk Index40
Stable. +5.1 vs 30d Minor friction in freight, energy or sanctions. Plan normally.
Country tension map
103 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.