Economic Inequality
Wealth concentration is at levels that distort politics as well as economies.
Severity score
50.0
Severe · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
The wealthiest one percent hold a large and growing share of global wealth, while real wages for much of the world have stagnated. Inequality is linked to worse health outcomes, lower social mobility and political instability independent of absolute income levels.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
26Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
86People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
70Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
6Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
58Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.