Venezuela Migration and Economic Crisis
The largest displacement crisis in the Western Hemisphere.
Severity score
48.7
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Economic collapse, hyperinflation and political repression have pushed nearly eight million Venezuelans out of the country, straining services across Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil. Inside the country, health care and utilities remain unreliable.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
34Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
86People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
52Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
24Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
30Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.