NOTE: THIS DATA FILE WILL CHANGE! To improve accessibility of data for all users, we will convert this file from a text format to an html table by the end of June 2024. Title: World Pandemic Uncertainty Index Series ID: WUPI Source: Ahir, Hites, Bloom, Nick, Furceri, Davide Release: World Uncertainty Index (Not a Press Release) Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted Frequency: Quarterly Units: Index Date Range: 1996-01-01 to 2024-01-01 Last Updated: 2024-04-15 2:33 PM CDT Notes: The World Pandemic Uncertainty Index is constructed by counting the number of times uncertainty is mentioned within a proximity to a word related to pandemics in the Economist Intelligence Unit country reports. Specifically, the index is the percent of the word "uncertain", and its variants, that appear near the pandemic terms in EIU country reports, multiplied by 1,000. A higher number means higher uncertainty related to pandemics and vice versa. Please see Hites Ahir, Nicholas Bloom and Davide Furceri (2018), 'The World Uncertainty Index' (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3275033) for additional explanation. DATE VALUE 1996-01-01 0.0000000 1996-04-01 0.0000000 1996-07-01 0.0000000 1996-10-01 0.0000000 1997-01-01 0.0000000 1997-04-01 0.0000000 1997-07-01 0.0000000 1997-10-01 0.0000000 1998-01-01 0.0000000 1998-04-01 0.0000000 1998-07-01 0.0000000 1998-10-01 0.0000000 1999-01-01 0.0000000 1999-04-01 0.0000000 1999-07-01 0.0000000 1999-10-01 0.0000000 2000-01-01 0.0000000 2000-04-01 0.0000000 2000-07-01 0.0000000 2000-10-01 0.0000000 2001-01-01 0.0000000 2001-04-01 0.0000000 2001-07-01 0.0000000 2001-10-01 0.0000000 2002-01-01 0.0000000 2002-04-01 0.0000000 2002-07-01 0.0000000 2002-10-01 0.0000000 2003-01-01 0.0000000 2003-04-01 4.3986510 2003-07-01 1.2870270 2003-10-01 0.6421001 2004-01-01 0.1010619 2004-04-01 0.2611953 2004-07-01 0.2631840 2004-10-01 0.0915504 2005-01-01 0.0000000 2005-04-01 0.1360110 2005-07-01 0.0000000 2005-10-01 0.0000000 2006-01-01 0.0000000 2006-04-01 0.0000000 2006-07-01 0.0000000 2006-10-01 0.0000000 2007-01-01 0.2381715 2007-04-01 0.0000000 2007-07-01 0.0000000 2007-10-01 0.0000000 2008-01-01 0.0000000 2008-04-01 0.0000000 2008-07-01 0.0000000 2008-10-01 0.0000000 2009-01-01 0.0000000 2009-04-01 0.0654347 2009-07-01 0.0000000 2009-10-01 0.0000000 2010-01-01 0.0000000 2010-04-01 0.0000000 2010-07-01 0.0000000 2010-10-01 0.0000000 2011-01-01 0.0000000 2011-04-01 0.0000000 2011-07-01 0.0000000 2011-10-01 0.0000000 2012-01-01 0.0000000 2012-04-01 0.0000000 2012-07-01 0.0000000 2012-10-01 0.0000000 2013-01-01 0.0000000 2013-04-01 0.0000000 2013-07-01 0.0000000 2013-10-01 0.0000000 2014-01-01 0.0000000 2014-04-01 0.0000000 2014-07-01 0.1105194 2014-10-01 0.5014935 2015-01-01 0.6304823 2015-04-01 0.4172994 2015-07-01 0.4410201 2015-10-01 0.0689442 2016-01-01 0.0666064 2016-04-01 0.2035999 2016-07-01 0.1981986 2016-10-01 0.0000000 2017-01-01 0.0415879 2017-04-01 0.2785994 2017-07-01 0.0000000 2017-10-01 0.0801858 2018-01-01 0.0719075 2018-04-01 0.0000000 2018-07-01 0.0000000 2018-10-01 0.0000000 2019-01-01 0.0000000 2019-04-01 0.1283709 2019-07-01 0.0612884 2019-10-01 0.0841720 2020-01-01 13.4577200 2020-04-01 15.9158400 2020-07-01 24.1123500 2020-10-01 15.4293400 2021-01-01 13.2009500 2021-04-01 12.8063100 2021-07-01 7.6745140 2021-10-01 11.8213100 2022-01-01 5.1091320 2022-04-01 2.5639820 2022-07-01 0.7148107 2022-10-01 1.1372670 2023-01-01 0.5742161 2023-04-01 1.7223830 2023-07-01 0.1102979 2023-10-01 0.4192857 2024-01-01 0.4850233