Humanity's Problems

Poverty and economic securityDiseases of poverty

Diseases of poverty

Conditions whose burden falls overwhelmingly on the poorest.

Problem Priority Burden Trend Here as

Priority is computed from five sourced components under a published weighting. Burden is shown as an absolute figure rather than a bar, because a bar beside the score it feeds says the same thing twice.

2 problems here cannot be ranked yet. Not because they are small, but because nobody has found citable figures for every component. Each one names what is missing.

Malaria A mosquito-borne parasitic disease that kills mostly young children in sub-Saharan Africa. Prevention... unscored needs burden, trend, neglect, tractability
Tuberculosis A curable bacterial infection that remains one of the world's deadliest, concentrated overwhelmingly among... unscored needs burden, trend, neglect, tractability