Drought
Drought is a widespread, recurrent hazard that causes water shortages, crop failures, hunger, livelihood losses and ecosystem degradation. The supplied evidence indicates very high historical mortality and substantial economic harm, although it does not establish a single global event total or current-year estimate.
Severity score
77.9
Critical · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
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
74Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
86People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
77Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
76Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
74Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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