Haiti State Collapse
Armed gangs control most of the capital amid state failure, hunger and mass displacement.
Severity score
46.9
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
Following the 2021 assassination of President Moise, armed gangs expanded to control the majority of Port-au-Prince, cutting off ports, fuel and food distribution. The state has effectively ceased to function across large parts of the country. Sexual violence, kidnapping and forced recruitment of children are widespread, and cholera has returned. A multinational security support mission has had limited effect.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
48Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
60People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
20Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
30Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
90Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.