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Somalia Drought and Child Malnutrition Crisis

Somalia faces deepening hunger after drought, with nearly 400 starvation deaths reported and 5.4 million people projected to face crisis-level hunger.

Severity score

51.3

Severe · default weighting

Trajectory

Worsening

How this is ranked

What this is

Somalia remains under a drought emergency declared in November 2025. Admissions for severe child malnutrition have reportedly nearly tripled over six months, signaling rapidly deteriorating food and health conditions.

The country narrowly averted famine in 2022, underscoring the risk posed by the renewed drought. The available headline does not provide a supported total for deaths or people affected.

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

28

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

Lives negatively impacted

67

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

Financial cost

42

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

Environmental impact

60

Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.

Trajectory

87

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

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