The Threat List

Status:Humanitarian

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GlobalHumanitarianNews-derivedmedium confidenceSourcing reviewed 2026-09-12

Attacks on Aid Workers

Aid-worker killings reached a reported record of 383 in 2024, underscoring worsening danger to humanitarian personnel.

Severity score

31.9

Limited · default weighting

Trajectory

Worsening

How this is ranked

What this is

Score breakdown

Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.

Loss of life

25

Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.

Lives negatively impacted

49

People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.

Financial cost

19

Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.

Environmental impact

4

Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.

Trajectory

77

Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.

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