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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

16

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

Lives negatively impacted

90

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

Financial cost

72

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

Environmental impact

1

Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.

Trajectory

26

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