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In 2025, the UN and partner organizations are appealing for over $47 billion to assist 190 million people. This Global Humanitarian Overview 20225 is launched on behalf of more than 1,500 humanitarian partners. It covers 73 countries through 24 country plans, 9 flash appeals and 9 regional plans. The Global Humanitarian Overview 2025 is being launched at a time when entrenched, violent conflicts and the climate crisis are taking a tremendous toll on lives and livelihoods. In 2024: • One in five children worldwide lives in or has fled from conflict zones. • Four out of five civilian casualties in conflicts worldwide occurred in a countries with a humanitarian plan or appeal. • 2024 will be the hottest year on record, with global temperatures perilously close to 1.5ºC warming. Crises are lasting longer, with grim prospects for people impacted. The average duration of a humanitarian appeal/plan is now 10 years. In these settings: • The maternal mortality rate is nearly double the global average. • Vaccinations reach just 64 per cent of children, compared to 84 per cent globally. • Primary school completion rates are just 10 per cent, compared with 90 per cent globally. Two things are urgently needed for humanitarians to effectively deliver in 2025: respect for international humanitarian law and accountability for violations, and a fully funded appeal. The Global Humanitarian Overview is a comprehensive assessment of global humanitarian needs, and it provides a snapshot of current and future trends in humanitarian action for large-scale resource mobilization. The full report, interactive content and updated operational data are available in full through HumanitarianAction.info.

This dataset shows the number of People in Need (PiN), funds required, and funds received by country over the years, from 2010 to 2024.

In 2024, humanitarian partners are appealing for US$46.4 billion to assist 180.5 million people facing life-threatening and urgent needs. This Global Humanitarian Overview 20224 is launched on behalf of more than 1,900 humanitarian partners, the majority (1,189) of which are local/national non-governmental organizations. • It covers 72 countries - 26 countries directly impacted by crises, and 46 countries that neighbour them and have received refugees. The Global Humanitarian Overview 2024 is being launched at a time when new and resurging conflicts, the climate crisis and economic factors are taking a tremendous toll on communities around the world. • One in 73 people worldwide is now displaced. This figure has doubled in the past 10 years. • Nearly one child in every five worldwide is living in, or has fled from, conflict zones. • 258 million people face acute hunger. • Disease outbreaks are causing preventable deaths. The Global Humanitarian Overview is a comprehensive assessment of global humanitarian needs, and it provides a snapshot of current and future trends in humanitarian action for large-scale resource mobilization. The five largest country appeals reflect the number of people in need and the depth of their need. The appeal for Syria requests $4.4 billion, Ukraine $3.1 billion, Afghanistan $3 billion, Ethiopia $2.9 billion and Yemen $2.8 billion. The top five regional appeals, covering the crisis-affected countries’ neighbours, are the Syria Regional Appeal at $5.5 billion, the Venezuela Joint Refugee and Migrant Plan at $1.6 billion, the South Sudan Regional Appeal at $1.5 billion, the Sudan Regional Appeal at $1.3 billion and the Ukraine Regional Appeal at $1 billion. The full report, interactive content and updated operational data are available in full through HumanitarianAction.info.

As of mid-June 2023, the Global Humanitarian Overview requires $54.8 billion to assist 249 million of the 362 million people in need. The GHO is made up of 26 Humanitarian Response Plans (HRP), nine regional plans, five Flash Appeals, and other types of plans. Requirements this year are around $8.4 billion more compared to the mid-year point in 2022, representing an increase of 18 per cent, which is smaller than the almost 30 per cent increase experienced in the first semester of 2022. Donors have provided $10.7 billion as of mid-year for the GHO plans, which represents 20 per cent of the total required this year. This is the same as the 20 per cent coverage in both mid-June of 2021 and 2022. However, coverage of the plans in the GHO varies widely. Twenty-five out of 43 inter-agency response plans (58 per cent) are currently funded below the global average of 20 per cent. This is about the same percentage as in 2022 and 2021, suggesting that the imbalance in funding coverage for appeals remains a protracted problem. In absolute terms, Afghanistan (- $950 million), Ukraine (- $600 million) and Syria ( - $60 million) have seen the sharpest decreases in funding compared to the same time last year. Conversely, the following plans have seen increases in both absolute funding and coverage compared to the same time last year: Burkina Faso, Burundi, DRC, El Salvador, Haiti, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, and South Sudan. The gap between financial requirements and resources currently stands at $43 billion – the highest ever. This is more than double the entire requirements of the GHO ($20 billion) in 2016. An additional $4.4 billion of humanitarian funding has been channelled outside the GHO, bringing total humanitarian funding to $15 billion. This is about the same as the $15 billion reported by donors and humanitarian partners at the same period last year. More comparisons and trends can be found in the pages that follow. As always, trends at mid-year are indicative and the situations in countries and regions can fluctuate due to unforeseen disasters or the deterioration of existing crises.

In 2022, 274 million people will need humanitarian assistance and protection. This number is a significant increase from 235 million people a year ago, which was already the highest figure in decades. The United Nations and partner organizations aim to assist 183 million people most in need across 63 countries, which will require $41 billion. These datasets are taken from the Global Humanitarian Overview 2022. To explore the full interactive report, please head to the Global Humanitarian Overview website. The Global Humanitarian Overview is the world’s most comprehensive, authoritative, and evidence-based assessment of humanitarian need. It provides a global snapshot of the current and future trends in humanitarian action for large-scale resource mobilization efforts, and explores opportunities to deliver humanitarian assistance more effectively. All the data present in the report is a snapshot as of 20 November 2021. For the most up to date figures for appeals please head to the Financial Tracking Service and Humanitarian Insight.

CERF and CBPF pooled funds have allocated a combined total of US$222 million to COVID-19 pandemic responses.

The Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) is the world’s most comprehensive, authoritative and evidence-based assessment of humanitarian need. Through plans that prioritize those most in need, it aims to fight hunger, killer diseases, gender-based violence and displacement. In 2021, 235 million people will need humanitarian assistance and protection.

The new and emerging access constraints that people are currently experiencing because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

This dataset contains scores for humanitarian access constraints into country, constraints within country, impacts the constraints have led to as well as the mitigation strategies in place to limit the impact. The scores have the following interpretations: 0 = NA, 1 = No or open, 2 = partially open/closed, 3 = Yes or closed

List of coronavirus (COVID-19) global appeals and plans.

United Nations office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs office locations

Country's economic exposure due to COVID-19. Composite indicator based on World Bank's datasets on remittances, food import dependence, primary commodity export dependence, tourism dependence, government indebtedness and foreign currency reserves.

This data contains the number of people in need, internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees and refugees for 25 countries.

This dataset contains the data used in the World Humanitarian Data and Trends report.