South AsiaHumanitarianSince 2017Curatedhigh confidence

Rohingya Refugee Crisis

A stateless population in indefinite camp confinement with shrinking rations.

Severity score

37.0

Serious · default weighting

Trajectory

Worsening

What this is

Around a million Rohingya remain in camps in Bangladesh with no legal status, no right to work and repeated funding cuts to food rations. Conditions inside Rakhine State make return unsafe, and boat departures have risen sharply.

Score breakdown

Loss of life

38

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

Lives negatively impacted

60

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

Financial cost

18

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

Environmental impact

8

Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.

Trajectory

58

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