Syria Post-War Crisis
Fourteen years of war left a shattered state, mass displacement and a stalled recovery.
Severity score
70.9
Critical · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Syria remains one of the largest displacement crises in the world, with millions internally displaced and millions more as refugees in neighbouring countries. Infrastructure, health care and the economy were largely destroyed, and reconstruction financing remains politically blocked.
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
84Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
88People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
80Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
26Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
38Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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