Corruption and Illicit Financial Flows
Money that should fund states is moved offshore at a scale that dwarfs aid.
Severity score
49.9
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Illicit financial flows, tax abuse and grand corruption drain public revenue from precisely the countries least able to lose it. The sums lost annually exceed total global development assistance several times over, and the enabling infrastructure sits in wealthy jurisdictions.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
26Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
80People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
86Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
6Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
40Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.