Drowning
Drowning is a major global, preventable cause of injury death, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries and imposing substantial social and economic costs.
Severity score
42.9
Serious · 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
25People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
48Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
2Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
45Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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