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
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
37Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
55People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
48Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
38Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
52Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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