Country Profiles

Each card on this page reads one source and names it, with the period its figures cover, in its summary and its footer. PRISM reads most sources through their APIs and keeps a copy of each answer; the figures of a card are as recent as the source's last release that PRISM has read.

INFORM Risk and Severity

INFORM Risk is the European Commission Joint Research Centre's yearly index of the risk of a humanitarian crisis, from 0 to 10, built from hazard and exposure, vulnerability and the lack of coping capacity; its classes run from Very Low (2 or below) to Very High (above 6.5). The INFORM Severity Index is ACAPS's monthly score of a crisis under way, from 0 to 10 since 2026; a country with more than one crisis is shown by its most severe one. The development and vulnerability indicators are the values INFORM reads from UNDP, the World Bank, WHO, EM-DAT and FAO, each in its own unit.

Food Insecurity, Displacement and Political Violence by Area

The map draws the country's first-level administrative areas from OCHA's Common Operational Datasets (COD-AB) on HDX, or from geoBoundaries where HDX holds none or where its areas match the other sources less well (Burkina Faso's COD-AB has the regions of 2025, which the other sources do not use yet). Food insecurity is the share of the people analysed in Phase 3 or above in the latest analysis by area of the IPC, from its country data on HDX, or of the Cadre Harmonisé in West and Central Africa, added up from its admin-2 figures; internally displaced people are those IOM DTM counts in its latest round; political violence is ACLED's events and reported fatalities over the 12 complete months the Conflict tab reads. The fill shows the measure chosen, circles the internally displaced people and spikes the political violence events of each area. A source's area joins the boundaries by its p-code where it gives one and the boundaries carry them, and otherwise by its name; names that match no area are listed in the map's footer with their figures. Selecting an area opens its profile, with each figure's rank among the country's areas.

Child Wellbeing

The child wellbeing indicators are UNICEF's figures from its data warehouse, the latest year reported for each indicator, so the years in one table can differ.

Acute Food Insecurity

The Global Report on Food Crises, from the Food Security Information Network and the Global Network Against Food Crises, gives one figure a year for each country from its IPC, Cadre Harmonisé or other analyses: the people in each phase of acute food insecurity in the population analysed. The latest IPC analysis and the classification by area come from the IPC-CH Public API, which PRISM reads again after a day: each area carries the phase the IPC classified it in, from 1 (Minimal) to 5 (Famine), and its estimated people in each phase, for the current period and the projections.

Risk Trends

INFORM Risk by year reads the editions PRISM keeps in its INFORM archive, with the methodology version of each; INFORM Severity by month reads the releases PRISM keeps in its ACAPS archive, each placed in the month of ACAPS's update, the date the Snapshot gives; readings on ACAPS's earlier scale of 0 to 5 are doubled, so the readings share one scale.

Funding

The funding reported for a country is the total OCHA's Financial Tracking Service (FTS) reports for it each year, read through api.hpc.tools, the figure on the country's page on fts.unocha.org: every humanitarian flow reported with the country as its destination, inside or outside a response plan. Requirements, and the funding reported against them, come from the response plans OCHA publishes through its Humanitarian Programme Cycle tools; regional response plans cover several countries and are left out of a country's totals. The donors of a year are the same flows grouped by donor, a government's agencies counted under the government as FTS groups them. CERF's allocations are the funded projects of its Rapid Response and Underfunded Emergencies windows in CERF's own project records, as published on HDX, from 2006; a project whose agency is still to be determined is under review and left out of the totals. The pooled fund figures are the CBPF Data Hub's approved allocations and paid and pledged contributions. A year that a source was read in is in progress and marked to date.

Conflict and Humanitarian Access

Political violence events and their reported fatalities are ACLED's, counted by month and by year. Humanitarian access is ACAPS's: nine indicators scored from 0 to 3 under three pillars, and an overall level from 0 (no significant access constraints) to 5 (extreme access constraints); the names of the pillars and indicators follow ACAPS's Humanitarian Access Overview of December 2024.

Protection Risk Entries

PRISM keeps every entry of ACAPS's Protection Risks Monitor in its protection archive, with the entries PRISM's desk publishes beside them, each under one of the Global Protection Cluster's protection risks. An entry is one report a monitor recorded, counted in the month of its source's date; the counts follow what the monitors could document. ACAPS adds entries weeks after their source date, so the months from that of the archive's newest entry to the month PRISM last read the archive in are still filling, and the counts by risk cover the 12 months before them.

Aid Worker Security

The Aid Worker Security Database, from Humanitarian Outcomes, records incidents in which aid workers were killed, injured, kidnapped or detained. PRISM keeps it at incident level; the counts are of aid workers affected, and the latest year holds the incidents recorded so far.

Population and People in Need

Population and the shares of women and of children aged 0 to 14 are the World Bank's figures for the whole population. Refugees from a country and refugees hosted in it are UNHCR's figures. People in need and people targeted come from the humanitarian response plans OCHA publishes through its Humanitarian Programme Cycle tools; where a country has more than one plan in a year, the plan counting the most people in need stands for the year, and regional refugee response plans are left out because they cover several countries. People in need by sector and by population group come from the Humanitarian Needs Overview table on HDX; the population groups overlap, so they add up to more than the total.

Internal Displacement

IOM's Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) counts internally displaced people in the areas it assesses, round by round; the card shows the latest round PRISM has read. IDMC's Global Internal Displacement Database holds validated figures for each year: people living in internal displacement at the end of the year, a stock, and new internal displacements during it, a flow in which a person displaced twice counts twice. The two are kept on separate charts and never added together. Where IDMC has no separate estimate for a cause, its database holds a 0 and its own reports leave the cell blank, and PRISM reads such a figure as no figure.

Internal Displacement Updates

IDMC's Internal Displacement Updates are preliminary figures for single events, added as reports come in. PRISM keeps every update it reads in an archive and reads it the way OCHA's idmc package does, as the Internal Displacement page, PRISM Alerts and the Analyst do: where an event has a recommended figure that figure stands, otherwise the latest triangulated figure for each place is added up for the event, and each figure is spread evenly over the days of the period it covers. The month in progress is drawn dashed.

Recorded Disasters

EM-DAT, the Emergency Events Database of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED, UCLouvain), records disasters that killed 10 or more people, affected 100 or more, or led to a declaration of emergency or a call for international assistance. PRISM reads CRED's country profiles file from HDX, which runs from 2000 and carries its date in its name; the year of that date is in progress and marked to date. A disaster is counted in the year it began, and EM-DAT's total affected adds the people injured, affected and left homeless.

Disaster Alerts

The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS), run by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre and UN OCHA, rates each sudden-onset event Green, Orange or Red by its likely humanitarian impact. PRISM keeps every alert it reads in its GDACS archive, with the episodes of each; the archive's holdings begin in a different year for each hazard, and each hazard's yearly count starts in its first full year there (earlier only where the country has an alert, the year then labelled with the month the holdings begin).

Hazard Exposure

INFORM Risk scores each natural hazard from 0 to 10 for the people exposed to it and its probability; the scores come from the newest INFORM edition in PRISM's INFORM archive. The exposure indicators are INFORM's own inputs, such as the expected number of people exposed to river floods in a year, each with its unit and the period INFORM gives for it.

Rainfall and Crop Conditions

Rainfall is CHIRPS, from the Climate Hazards Center, published by dekad (10-day period) with its long-term average through OCHA's HDX HAPI. The national figure adds every first-level unit's rainfall and its average over the latest nine dekads, about three months, and the latest three. PRISM's drought watch reads the same dekads unit by unit and classes each share of average in the bands FEWS NET and WFP use. The Joint Research Centre's Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production (ASAP) classes each country it monitors every month as no hotspot, hotspot or major hotspot, or records it as not assessed, with the first-level units under a warning on crops or rangeland and an analyst's comment.

El Niño and La Niña

The ENSO alert status, the Oceanic Niño Index and the probability outlook are NOAA Climate Prediction Center's. The tendencies are PRISM's reading of the CPC and IRI composite maps of how each phase has tended to shift a country's rainfall in a season; a tendency matches the current outlook when its phase holds the CPC advisory and the outlook gives that phase 50% or more in one of its seasons over the next four.

Anticipatory Action

PRISM's anticipatory action ledger holds the IFRC's Early Action Protocol and DREF anticipatory activations, read from IFRC GO, and CERF's anticipatory allocations, read from HDX. IFRC amounts are in Swiss francs and CERF amounts in US dollars, and the two are never added together.

Reports from ReliefWeb

ReliefWeb, run by OCHA, publishes situation reports, assessments, analyses and press releases from humanitarian organisations. PRISM keeps every report it reads for a country in its ReliefWeb archive; a report can cover several countries. The situation summary is written by Claude from the newest reports in the archive and names its model and date.

Related Insights

PRISM Insights lists the pieces PRISM has published that name the country among their countries of focus, newest first.