Where is suffering worst - and where is it getting worse?

Clear charts and reports from trusted public data on hunger, disease, displacement, and other severe harms.

Four findings already available

52.3 millionpeople in Crisis or worse across the completed 14-country acute food insecurity analysis.

Cadre Harmonisé, June–August 2026

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42.8 millionchildren affected by wasting globally, including 12.2 million with severe wasting.

Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates, 2024

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4.46 millionsuspected dengue episodes reported across the Americas in 2025.

PAHO regional surveillance

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125 placeswith complete FIES prevalence records on moderate-or-severe and severe food insecurity.

FAOSTAT, 2023–2025

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One question. A few charts. Clear takeaways.

WSI is developing short, chart-led reports that connect public datasets and explain what each measure shows.

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This space will highlight the next chart-led report when it is ready.

Hunger, child nutrition, and dengue

Dengue in the Americas

Reported episodes, severe cases, and deaths from 2025 regional surveillance.

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Acute food insecurity

Populations classified in Crisis, Emergency, and Catastrophe/Famine phases.

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Child wasting

Global and regional estimates of wasting and severe wasting in children.

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FIES food insecurity

Country and territory prevalence records on lived food-access difficulties.

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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.