The Threat List

Status:Humanitarian

GlobalHumanitarianNews-derivedmedium confidenceSourcing reviewed 2026-09-12

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

How this is ranked

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

58

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

Lives negatively impacted

88

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

Financial cost

35

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

Environmental impact

3

Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.

Trajectory

68

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

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