Internet Shutdowns
Governments switch off connectivity during exactly the moments it matters most.
Severity score
30.9
Limited · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
Deliberate shutdowns during elections, protests and military operations block emergency services, banking and reporting. The number of shutdowns and the number of countries imposing them both continue to rise.
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
10Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
58People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
32Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
1Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
68Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
Audit trail
Everything this entry has been through — when it was first searched for, queued, reviewed and approved, and how its figures and rank have moved since.
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