2019/20 saw 54 active conflicts – which is on par with the record set in 2016 – and a record high of 47 minor armed conflicts. Internal conflicts are dominant.
Source: Aas Rustad (2021)
Around 555 million people lived within 50 kilometres of a conflict event in 1990, compared with almost 1.2 billion –15 percent of the world’s population –in 2020.
Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program Georeferenced Event Dataset, Ostby, Aas Rustad and Tollefsen (2020)
In 2020, 2.4 billion people were moderately or severely food insecure, up 44 percent (or 723 million people) from 2014.
Source: : FAO (2021), UNDESA (2015), UNDP HDRO (2022)
75% of world’s extreme poor – 1.8 billion people - live in 57 conflict affected countries that are not meeting any SDG's.
Between 2012 and 2018, foreign direct investment (FDI) declined by 53 percent, leaving a massive gap in investment.
Source: PBSO, DPPA, PBSB, Background note on Financial Flows for Peacebuilding, (2021)
The least-developed countries have attracted only 6% of all the private finance that official development assistance (ODA) has mobilised. This is due to a variety of factors, but the principal cause is a failure to link development and peace strategies to private sector activity.
Source: OECD and UNCDF (2020), ‘Blended Finance in the Least Developed Countries 2020: Supporting a Resilient COVID-19 Recovery’, OECD Publishing.
Global sustainable issuance more than doubled to USD 1.64 trillion in 2021, from USD 761 billion issued in 2020. If only 1 percent of this issuance was aligned with Peace Finance standards and impact frameworks, more than USD 16 billion of peace-enhancing finance could be raised.
Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance
