Lebanon Economic and Security Crisis
A currency collapse and a border war layered on top of each other.
Severity score
49.8
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
Lebanon has suffered one of the most severe peacetime economic contractions on record, wiping out savings and public services, while hostilities on the southern border displaced over a million people. It also hosts the highest number of refugees per capita in the world.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
44Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
72People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
60Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
8Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
54Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.