Middle EastConflictSince 2011Curatedmedium confidence

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

Loss of life

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

Lives negatively impacted

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

Financial cost

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

Environmental impact

Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.

Trajectory

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