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NXS-GRX-SSD · Eastern Africa

Sud Sudan

Country risk profile on The Global Risks Index: hazard and threat exposure, vulnerability, macro-financial fragility, coping capacity and systemic coupling, with intervals, sources and corrections on every value.

Pagina GRX-SSDEdizione Edizione di base 2026Chiusura delle evidenze 2026-09-30ISO SSD / SSStato UN member stateValori non ancora pubblicatoMetodo v1.0.0-draft
FIGURA 1 · South Sudan in Eastern Africa
Caricamento della mappa
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02Humanitarian data

South Sudan in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2022-12-31

12,394,970

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

People in need · 2026-12-31

51,871,258

humanitarian need. OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools) · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Refugees hosted · 2025-12-31

2,149,085

refugees and asylum-seekers in the country. UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Refugees from the country · 2025-12-31

4,054,575

refugees and asylum-seekers abroad, most in South Sudan, Uganda, Sudan. UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Humanitarian funding · 2025-12-31

US$ 787 m

received against US$ 1,695 m required. OCHA Financial Tracking System (FTS) · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Rainfall

77 units

with rainfall against the long-term average, on the unit pages. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

Food prices · 2026-01-14

38 markets

Oil (vegetable): 1832 SSP per L. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

03Aree

The full profile of South Sudan, area by area

Fourteen areas from macroeconomy to frontier technology, and the planned innovation index. Each card says whether its sources are cleared, shows the mix, and gives two actions: what the area needs, and a scenario you can run now on open data.

Come leggereAdmitted: usableUnder legal review: waitingProhibited: excludedNot in the register: not yet assessedAcross the 14 areas: 113 admitted · 63 under legal review · 23 prohibited · 170 not in the register
Partly admitted14 indicators · 2 composites

Macroeconomy and external position

Output, prices, external balance and reserves, monetary conditions and labour, with intervals and the change since the last edition.

GDP
US$ 12.0 billion 2015
GDP per person
US$ 1,080 2015
GDP growth
-10.8% 2015
4 admitted · 4 under legal review · 1 not in the register
Partly admitted37 indicators · 7 composites

Fiscal position and public debt

Debt path fan charts, gross financing needs, debt service and fiscal stress, with the assumptions published.

7 admitted · 13 under legal review · 8 not in the register
Partly admitted32 indicators · 7 composites

Financial system

Banking-system capital and liquidity, credit growth, asset prices and contagion on the dependency network.

Lending interest rate
14.3% 2025
9 admitted · 4 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 8 not in the register
Partly admitted18 indicators · 5 composites

Trade, economic structure and supply chains

Trade openness and concentration, commodity dependence and supply-chain exposure by sector.

Commercio
65.5% 2015
Esportazioni
36.6% 2015
Foreign direct investment, net inflows
0% 2015
8 admitted · 6 under legal review · 5 not in the register
Partly admitted13 indicators · 5 composites

L'acqua

Water stress, drought, access and quality, coupled to food, energy and health in the water, energy, food, health and biodiversity nexus.

Stress idrico
4.2% 2022
Renewable internal freshwater per person
2,359 m³ 2022
3 admitted · 2 under legal review · 2 prohibited · 4 not in the register
Partly admitted23 indicators · 6 composites

Energia

Supply security, import dependence, grid reliability, transition exposure and access.

Access to electricity
5.4% 2024
Renewable energy
32.4% 2021
Energy imports, net
-504% 2024
7 admitted · 5 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 18 not in the register
Partly admitted23 indicators · 6 composites

Food systems

Availability, access, prices and nutrition, and the drivers from water, energy, trade and conflict.

Undernourishment
19.1% 2024
Cereal yield
945 2024
Stunting, under 5
31.3% 2010
14 admitted · 4 under legal review · 2 not in the register
Partly admitted31 indicators · 6 composites

Sicurezza sanitaria

Health-system capacity, outbreak preparedness, disease burden and the health effects of other systems.

Life expectancy
57.7 years 2024
Under-5 mortality
96.7 2024
Health spending
11.6% 2023
4 admitted · 2 under legal review · 15 prohibited · 8 not in the register
Partly admitted22 indicators · 6 composites

Environment and biodiversity

Ecosystem condition, biodiversity pressure, land and ocean change and nature dependence of the economy.

Forest area
11.3% 2024
Protected areas
15.4% 2025
PM2.5 air pollution
23.7 µg/m³ 2023
9 admitted · 5 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 22 not in the register
Partly admitted31 indicators · 8 composites

Climate: physical and transition

Chronic and acute physical risk under scenarios, and transition exposure of the economy and the public balance sheet.

People below 5 m elevation
0% 2015
10 admitted · 7 under legal review · 24 not in the register
Partly admitted39 indicators · 10 composites

Conflict, governance and security

Violence and its spillovers, institutional quality, rule of law and state capacity.

Intentional homicides
14 2012
9 admitted · 4 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 14 not in the register
Partly admitted27 indicators · 10 composites

Frontier technology and innovation

Frontier technology risk and capacity side by side: AI, compute, semiconductors, quantum, space, biotech, cyber resilience and digital infrastructure, with the innovation index below.

Internet users
6.7% 2019
Fixed broadband subscriptions
0 2023
Scientific and technical articles
17 2023
9 admitted · 5 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 26 not in the register
Partly admitted18 indicators · 5 composites

Coping capacity and disaster finance

Preparedness, response and recovery capacity, risk financing and social protection.

9 admitted · 1 under legal review · 1 prohibited · 18 not in the register
Partly admitted46 indicators · 11 composites

Society, demography and mobility

Human development, inequality, ageing, urbanisation and displacement.

Popolazione
12.2 million 2025
Urban population
21.7% 2025
Poverty at $3.00 a day
76.5% 2016
11 admitted · 1 under legal review · 12 not in the register
Previsti12 planned indicators

Innovation index

Research, patents, talent, compute, digital infrastructure and capital for South Sudan, read beside frontier technology risk. Not in Indicator Standard yet; each indicator needs its source admitted.

04Quote

South Sudan composite risk

Value, change since the previous edition, 90% interval and class probability; the history and the published indicators follow.

NXS-GRX-SSD · CRI · Eastern Africa · 0–10 scale
South Sudan composite risk
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Values publish with the edition; the interval, class and change appear here.
Previous edition
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Range since 2016
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Coupled composite
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Coupling score S
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Pulse, latest week
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Outlook, 12 months
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Metodo
Indicator Standard 1.0 · NXS-GRX 2026
Draws
1,000
South Sudan composite risk, by edition

No released values yet. The first edition draws the history here with its interval band and class bounds.

The line is the point value by edition; the band is the 90% interval; dashed lines are the class bounds at 2, 3.5, 5 and 6.5.

“South Sudan: published indicators” is not connected: the Foundry connection it needs is switched off on this network.

05Profile

Four pillars, composite and coupled composite

The composite is shown only with its four pillars and twenty domain indices beside it; each value carries a 90% interval and a class with its probability.

StrumentoValoreVariazioneVariazione %Intervallo al 90%Classe · probabilitàTendenzaIntervallo
NXS-GRX Rischio compositoNXS-GRX-SSD · CRI–––––
NXS-GRX Rischio accoppiatoNXS-GRX-SSD · CPL–––––
Esposizione a pericoli e minacceNXS-GRX-SSD · HTE–––––
Vulnerabilità umana e dei sistemiNXS-GRX-SSD · VUL–––––
Fragilità macrofinanziaria e strutturaleNXS-GRX-SSD · MSF–––––
Mancanza di capacità di risposta e di adattamentoNXS-GRX-SSD · LCC–––––
Molto bassada 0.0 a < 2.0
Bassoda 2.0 a < 3.5
Medioda 3.5 a < 5.0
Altoda 5.0 a < 6.5
Molto altoda 6.5 a 10.0
07Accoppiamento

How South Sudan is coupled to the world

Not yet estimated. Coupling strengths through trade and inputs, finance and debt, energy, food trade, infrastructure and information are ◆ ESTIMATED per edition with their method and references; the coupled composite is reported beside the standalone one.
09Peers

Profiles in Eastern Africa

A peer group is a reading context, not a ranking; profiles are listed by name.

Explore South Sudan

Indices, hazards, the map and the data behind every value.

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