South Sudan Crisis
Political violence, flooding and economic collapse in the world youngest country.
Severity score
56.7
Severe · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
South Sudan combines armed political conflict, extreme flooding, collapsed oil revenue and hyperinflation. Most of the population needs humanitarian aid, and the country also hosts hundreds of thousands fleeing the war in Sudan next door.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
72Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
80People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
30Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
22Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
58Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.