Statelessness
Millions of people are legally nobody, with no right to work, study or move.
Severity score
19.4
Limited · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Statelessness leaves people without documents, healthcare access, schooling or legal protection, and it passes to children. Causes range from discriminatory nationality laws to state succession and the denial of birth registration.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
10Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
44People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
12Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
1Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
28Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.