The figures on humanitarian need remain stark: More than 300 million people need support, at a potential cost of $47.4 billion. But for the second year in a row, the level of need has fallen.
That’s according to the Global Humanitarian Overview 2025, a report published Wednesday by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
It follows a decade in which humanitarian need — and the funding required to meet it — climbed steeply, driven first by the pandemic, and then by a rise in conflict, especially the war in Ukraine, and by the climate emergency.
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David Ainsworth@daveainsworth4
David Ainsworth is business editor at Devex, where he writes about finance and funding issues for development institutions. He was previously a senior writer and editor for magazines specializing in nonprofits in the U.K. and worked as a policy and communications specialist in the nonprofit sector for a number of years. His team specializes in understanding reports and data and what it teaches us about how development functions.
