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.