Conflict and violenceplanned
Intentional homicide, conflict deaths, and serious violence.
WSI Observatory
Public evidence about severe human conditions, organized for use.
The Observatory is WSI's main public product: source-based pages, clear definitions, comparable charts where justified, visible gaps, and downloadable data.
It is launching in phases. The first live pages come from four evidence packages already validated by WSI; no new dataset or country ranking is introduced in this release.
Six-domain framework
What the Observatory is designed to track
Planned domains are labeled rather than populated with weak substitutes.
Displacement and persecutionplanned
Refugees, internal displacement, and forced movement.
Food insecurity and nutritionlive
Experiential food insecurity, acute classifications, and child nutrition.
Health and diseaselive
Severe disease and preventable health loss.
Disasters and environmental shocksplanned
Disaster mortality, displacement, and severe disruption.
Basic needs and extreme deprivationplanned
Poverty, water, sanitation, clean cooking, and essential services.
Live evidence pages
Start with the source, then inspect the experiment
These pages were rebuilt from existing validated releases. The approved scientific results and downloads are unchanged.
Source evidence liveWSI Lab analysis
Dengue in the Americas
PAHO regional dengue surveillance · Epidemiological weeks 1-53 of 2025
4.46 million suspected episodes8,966 severe cases; 2,207 reported deaths
The modeled total remains driven by the very large non-severe episode count; deaths are reported separately.
Source evidence liveWSI Lab analysis
Acute food insecurity
Cadre Harmonisé phase classifications · Displayed June-August 2026 period
52.3 million people in Crisis or worse2.81 million in Emergency or worse; coverage varies from 20% to 100%
The USU layer decomposes severity, but the country ordering remains the same as the simpler Phase 3+ source count.
Source evidence liveWSI Lab analysis
Child wasting
UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates · 2024 global and regional prevalence estimates
42.8 million children affected by wasting12.2 million affected by severe wasting
Severe wasting contributes disproportionately to modeled burden, while the regional ordering remains unchanged.
Source evidence liveWSI Lab analysis
FIES food insecurity
FAOSTAT Food Insecurity Experience Scale · 2023-2025 source interpreted as one representative average year
125 complete country or territory prevalence records99 exact population records; 26 censored records reported per 100,000 only
The source is directly experiential, but duration assumptions dominate the modeled scale; no country ranking is published.
Evidence labels
What kind of number are you reading?
Source-reported or source-modeled
A value supplied or harmonized by the named source, with its period and universe visible.
WSI-derived
Transparent arithmetic or analysis with formula and source lineage.
WSI Lab experiment
An experimental model such as USU. It never replaces the source result.
Missing or unresolved
Missing data remain missing. They are never silently converted to zero.
Ranking boundary
No master suffering league table
WSI may eventually publish direct source rankings where period and method align. It has not published a total-suffering ranking, Suffering Concentration Score result, or attention-gap result.
Method before ranking
Future derived results must define the source universe, missingness, comparability, thresholds, and sensitivity before becoming public claims.
Read the methodology →