The Threat List

Status:Economic

GlobalEconomicNews-derivedmedium confidenceSourcing reviewed 2026-08-19

Tax Avoidance

The legal or quasi-legal reduction of tax liabilities through loopholes and cross-border arrangements erodes public revenue, can weaken public services, and may worsen inequality worldwide.

Severity score

39.2

Serious · default weighting

Trajectory

Steady

How this is ranked

What this is

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

8

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

Lives negatively impacted

58

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

Financial cost

78

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

Environmental impact

8

Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.

Trajectory

55

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

Audit trail

Everything this entry has been through — when it was first searched for, queued, reviewed and approved, and how its figures and rank have moved since.

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