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The Emergency Watchlist report is the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡â€™s assessment of the 20 countries at greatest risk of new humanitarian emergency each year. For the past decade, this report has helped the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ determine where to focus our emergency preparedness efforts, successfully predicting on average 85-95% of the 20 countries facing the worst deteriorations. 

This set of 20 countries provides a unique lens to understand the global humanitarian situation. Unprecedented levels of need are concentrated within the small number of Watchlist countries. These 20 countries are home to just 13% of the global population and account for a mere 1.6% of global GDP. Yet they represent 90% of people in humanitarian need, 81% of people globally who are forcibly displaced, 80% of people that are acutely food insecure, and 89% of conflict-related civilian deaths. If we can understand what is happening in these 20 countries—and what to do about it—then we may, finally, have a chance to start reducing the scale of human suffering in the world.