Global Humanitarian Overview
In 2025, our colleagues on the front lines of crises were killed, detained and injured, while our funding plummeted below levels last seen in 2016, forcing us to shutter, suspend and stop services for communities in crisis. For millions of people, 2025 was the year that the last lifeline available to them was snapped, while communities were exposed to conflict, atrocities, climate emergencies, and for the first time in recorded history two famines unfolded simultaneously. And yet, amid these extremes, humanitarians refused to relent. The is the latest diagnosis of the staggering scale of global suffering, the challenges we face in responding, the case for moral imagination and moral ambition. In 2026, humanitarians aim to assist 135 million out of 239 million people in need.