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Ecological Threat Report 2023
November 8 , 2023
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- The report focuses on four categories of threat: Food insecurity, natural disasters, demographic pressure and water risk.
- The number of people residing in countries facing severe ecological threats will go up to 2.8 billion by 2050.
- More than half of the hotspot countries facing a severe threat are in sub-Saharan Africa.
- The report covered 221 countries and independent territories, which were divided into 3,594 sub-national areas.
- It is accounting for 99.99 percent of the world’s population.
- Of these countries and territories, 66 face at least one severe ecological threat.
- Of the 30 hotspot countries that face severe ecological threats and have low levels of societal resilience, 19 are in sub-Saharan Africa.
- The most at risk countries are Ethiopia, Niger, Somalia and South Sudan, of which Ethiopia and Niger have recently emerged as hotspots.
- Europe and North America are the only two regions where no country currently faced a severe ecological threat.
- There are currently 42 countries experiencing severe food insecurity, and nearly four billion people live in areas experiencing high or severe food insecurity.
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