The Threat List

Status:Conflict

Global, concentrated in conflict-affected and post-conflict countriesConflictNews-derivedmedium confidenceSourcing reviewed 2026-08-19

Landmines and Unexploded Ordnance

A persistent global conflict-remnant threat that kills and injures civilians, restricts land use and livelihoods, impedes refugee return, and slows post-conflict recovery across dozens of contaminated countries.

Severity score

45.4

Serious · default weighting

Trajectory

Steady

How this is ranked

What this is

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

37

Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.

Lives negatively impacted

55

People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.

Financial cost

48

Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.

Environmental impact

38

Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.

Trajectory

52

Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.

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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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