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Pakistan is highly vulnerable to recurrent disasters induced by natural hazards such as drought, earthquakes, floods, and landslides. These incidents can generate widespread displacement and humanitarian needs, particularly among vulnerable households.
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Heavy monsoon rains and glacial lake outbursts prompted catastrophic floods and landslides across Pakistan between June and September 2022, adversely affecting an estimated 33 million people countrywide, or approximately 15 percent of the country’s population, according to the Government of Pakistan. The disaster resulted in more than 1,700 deaths, injury to nearly 12,900 individuals, the displacement of approximately 7.9 million people, and the damage or destruction of more than 2.3 million houses, particularly in Balochistan and Sindh provinces. Flood-affected populations remained in need of food, protection, shelter, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) assistance in 2023, according to relief actors.
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The 2022 floods significantly exacerbated the already high prevalence of acute malnutrition in Pakistan. An estimated 2.1 million children in more than 30 flood-affected districts remained in need of acute malnutrition treatment as of October 2023, according to the IPC. Food security, limited health care access, poor sanitation, and unsafe drinking water continue to drive the high prevalence of malnutrition in Pakistan, the UN reports.
Notably, relief actors had reached only 1.2 million people with safe drinking water of the 2022 Revised Flood Plan’s 3.4 million individuals targeted for WASH assistance as of August 2023. -
More than 11.8 million people are projected to face Crisis—IPC 3—or worse levels of acute food insecurity from November 2023 to January 2024, according to a June IPC analysis. Climatic shocks, food access constraints, livestock mortality, and reduced livelihoods continue to drive food insecurity in Pakistan.