Disability Exclusion
A sixth of humanity is systematically shut out of work, transport and education.
Severity score
44.5
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Around 1.3 billion people live with significant disability. They face worse health outcomes, far lower employment and routine physical and digital inaccessibility. In humanitarian crises they are consistently the last to be evacuated or served.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
16Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
90People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
72Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
1Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
26Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.