Diarrhoeal Disease in Children
Children still die in large numbers from an illness treatable with salt, sugar and clean water.
Severity score
45.8
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Improving
What this is
Diarrhoeal disease remains among the leading killers of children under five, concentrated in households without safe water, sanitation or nearby health care. Oral rehydration therapy costs cents and remains under-used. The burden is falling but far too slowly.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
66Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
72People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
22Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
8Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
24Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.