Cadre Harmonisé, June–August 2026
See the data →World Suffering Index
Data and trends on human suffering
Clear charts and reports on hunger, disease, displacement, and other severe harms.
What WSI does
Making difficult statistics easier to use
WSI turns fragmented public data about severe human harms into clear visual explanations, showing what the numbers measure, how they differ, and what they can - and cannot - tell us.
Current evidence
Four findings already available
Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates, 2024
See the data →PAHO regional surveillance
See the data →FAOSTAT, 2023–2025
See the data →Visual briefs
Clear guides to commonly confused statistics
Latest visual brief
Displacement is not one number
Refugees, internal-displacement stocks, and movement counts answer different questions.
Visual brief
Hunger is not one number
Four measures of hunger and malnutrition answer four different questions.
Explore current data
Hunger, displacement, child nutrition, and dengue
Dengue in the Americas
Reported episodes, severe cases, and deaths from 2025 regional surveillance.
Open data pageAcute food insecurity
Populations classified in Crisis, Emergency, and Catastrophe/Famine phases.
Open data pageChild wasting
Global and regional estimates of wasting and severe wasting in children.
Open data pageFIES food insecurity
Country and territory prevalence records on lived food-access difficulties.
Open data pageDisplacement
Refugees, people remaining internally displaced, and annual movement counts.
Open visual briefUSU Research
Can unlike harms be compared with one unit?
WSI also tests Universal Suffering Units, an experimental intensity-by-time framework. The four pilot results are published with their assumptions and ranges.