Kashmir Dispute
A militarised territorial dispute between two nuclear-armed states.
Severity score
34.9
Limited · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Kashmir remains one of the most heavily militarised regions on earth, with periodic cross-border exchanges, internet shutdowns and detentions. Escalation between India and Pakistan carries nuclear risk out of proportion to the territory involved.
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
40Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
50People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
26Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
8Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
40Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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