Religious Persecution
Religious persecution is a global human-rights and humanitarian problem involving discrimination, repression, violence, and killings based on religious identity or belief. The supplied evidence focuses primarily on Christians and reports hundreds of millions facing high levels of persecution or discrimination.
Severity score
53.7
Severe · 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
58Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
88People 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
3Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
68Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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