North AfricaConflictSince 2011Curatedmedium confidence

Libya Instability

A divided state, migrant abuse and periodic armed clashes over a decade after the civil war.

Severity score

32.2

Limited · default weighting

Trajectory

Steady

What this is

Libya remains split between rival administrations with armed groups controlling territory and revenue. It is also the main departure point for Mediterranean crossings, and detention conditions for migrants are documented as systematically abusive.

Score breakdown

Loss of life

40

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

Lives negatively impacted

44

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

Financial cost

26

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

Environmental impact

8

Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.

Trajectory

28

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