Extreme Poverty
Around seven hundred million people live on less than the international poverty line.
Severity score
58.5
Severe · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Progress on extreme poverty stalled after 2020 and reversed in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and conflict-affected states. Poverty is now increasingly concentrated in fragile and conflict-affected countries, where growth alone will not resolve it.
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
52Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
96People 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
10Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
34Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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