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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

10

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

Lives negatively impacted

44

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

Financial cost

12

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

Environmental impact

1

Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.

Trajectory

28

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