Myanmar Civil War
A nationwide armed resistance to military rule has produced mass displacement, airstrikes on civilians and economic collapse.
Severity score
60.3
Severe · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
The February 2021 coup triggered mass protest, brutal repression and the emergence of a nationwide armed resistance combining new People's Defence Forces with long-established ethnic armed organisations. The military has responded with airstrikes, village burnings and blockades of aid. Alongside the war, the Rohingya remain in mass exile in Bangladesh following the 2017 clearance operations.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
60Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
80People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
35Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
45Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
85Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.