2023: Highest Number of Humanitarian Emergencies in a Decade

FILE - Women who fled the war-torn Sudan line up to receive food rations at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees transit center near the border crossing point in Renk County of Upper Nile State, South Sudan May 1, 2023. FILE - A man walks past destroyed buildings in Antakya, southeastern Turkey, Feb. 21, 2023, two weeks after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey and Syria.

The 2020s have not been kind. The decade began with the COVID-19 pandemic and has since seen climate disasters and conflicts impact millions around the world; but last year was particularly difficult.