Data in Sudan

Given the severity of the conflict, the catalogue of data and evidence summarized below covers publications produced since the start of the conflict in Sudan in April 2023.

Beyond the Conflict: Charting a Path to Sustainable Growth and Development in Sudan

This report by UNDP & Institute for Security Studies (April 2026) provides scenario analysis of Sudan's development trajectory since the conflict began and projects three scenarios: a baseline with peace in 2026, continued conflict through 2030, and a recovery path. It quantifies cumulative GDP losses, poverty trajectories, and sector-level recovery potential across governance, health, education, agriculture, and infrastructure.

War and Resilience: The Multifaceted Impacts of Sudan's Conflict and Pathways to Recovery 

This IFPRI book draws on household and enterprise surveys, satellite indicators, market price data, and economic modelling to document the conflict's impacts on Sudan's economy, agrifood systems, and population welfare, situating the current crisis within Sudan's longer historical trajectory. Its final chapters offer a forward-looking assessment of entry points for stabilization and recovery.

Sudan Poverty and Equity Brief, October 2025 

This World Bank brief provides updated poverty estimates and analysis for Sudan, tracking the conflict's impact on poverty trends, GDP, and household welfare against the longer trajectory of rising poverty since South Sudan's independence in 2011.

Sudan Risk Analysis 2026

This ACAPS report outlines seven risks of emerging or deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Sudan between June–December 2026. The risk analysis aims to support humanitarian decision makers in anticipating potential escalations in humanitarian needs, displacement, humanitarian access constraints, and service disruptions to inform proactive preparedness and response planning.

Future Bank: Sudan’s Monetary Partition

The lack of banking options is exacerbating the humanitarian situation in Sudan, due to the economic consequences of the non-availability of newly issued high denomination bills and the closure or dysfunction of banks in RSF-controlled areas. At the same time, large quantities of gold, gum arabic, ground nuts, sesame, livestock, and other agricultural products are being locally produced, traded, and smuggled through neighboring countries, without an effective mechanism to pay local producers for them. This near financial and monetary vacuum has created fertile ground for the emergence of alternative practices.

World Bank, 2023, Sudan Economic Update - Missed Opportunities Amidst Deepening Fragility 

The Sudan Economic Update (SEU) is a World Bank report series that assesses key economic developments, prospects and policies in Sudan. It highlights macroeconomic trends before and after the outbreak of conflict (growth, inflation, public finances and structural constraints), with country-level analysis explaining how past policy choices and shocks weakened Sudan’s economic resilience.

Sudan Economic Update, May 2025: The Economic and Social Consequences of the Conflict - Charting a Path to Recovery

This May 2025 report provides macroeconomic estimates and projections (GDP, inflation, fiscal pressures), displacement and conflict-driven social impacts, as well as policy recommendations for stabilization and recovery, with quantitative snapshots of displacement and economic losses linked to the April 2023 conflict.

The Socio-Economic Impact of Armed Conflict on Sudanese Urban Households 

The report presents household survey evidence (displacement rates, employment loss, school attendance, access to health services) showing significant decline in full-time employment, major school dropouts and constrained health access among urban households since hostilities began. 

Sudan – IPC Special Report, June 2026

Sustained conflict, long-term displacement, economic and livelihoods disruptions continue to drive acute food security and have led to an unrelenting crisis in Sudan. This analysis draws on data and contextual information available up to 10 April 2026. 

Sudan: IPC Acute Food Insecurity Analysis for September 2025 and Projections for October 2025–January 2026 and for February–May 2026 

This IPC snapshot and projection document maps levels of acute food insecurity across Sudan as of September 2025, reporting 21.2 million people in IPC Phase 3 or above, with famine (IPC Phase 5) confirmed in El Fasher and Kadugli and famine risk flagged in 20 additional areas. It also presents projections through May 2026.

WFP Sudan Market Monitor - June 2026 

This WFP product provides market monitoring data and analysis (price trends, market functionality, staple food availability and trader constraints) for key markets across Sudan, intended to inform food assistance planning and cash/market-based response options. It includes tables of prices and market access notes.

IPC Famine Review Committee Report Sudan, December 2024

This December 2024 report provides the IPC/Famine Review Committee findings and maps that identify areas where Famine (IPC Phase 5) has been confirmed as well as projections of additional areas at risk between December 2024 and May 2025. The product contains population counts by IPC phase and the FRC’s conclusions and recommendations. 

Adverse Impact of the Triple Crisis on Food Insecurity and Livelihoods in Sudan

This is a multi-agency assessment examining how food, energy and financial shocks interact (the “triple crisis”), with sectoral data on commodity/energy availability, price effects on households and policy options to stabilize food and energy supplies for food security and livelihoods. This report contains quantitative assessments and policy recommendations.

Acute Food Insecurity Situation - Updated Projections and FRC conclusions for October 2024 to May 2025 

This is an Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) snapshot and projection document that maps levels of acute food insecurity across Sudan, reports estimated numbers of people in Crisis–Catastrophe phases (IPC3–5). It presents the Famine Review Committee’s formal determinations and methodological notes.

WFP Sudan - Sudan Regional Crisis External Situation Report, 31 July 2025 

This is a WFP situational report summarising operational response, beneficiary figures, pipeline and funding status, operational constraints and market/food security updates as of 31 July 2025. It includes weekly operational metrics and logistics notes.

Sudan Conflict and Complex Emergency: Public Health Situation Analysis (PHSA)

This WHO analysis (January 2026) documents the public health crisis in Sudan as of early 2026, covering health facility functionality, attacks on healthcare, disease outbreaks (cholera, dengue, malaria, measles, hepatitis E, diphtheria), malnutrition rates, and displacement-driven health needs across all 18 states.

High Frequency Phone Survey COVID-19, 2020-2022 

This product entails microdata and survey documentation for phone-based rounds collected during 2020–2022 that capture household welfare, employment, food security and access to services over time. The dataset includes questionnaires and round-level estimates suitable for trend analysis. 

Health Cluster Sudan Bulletin (May 2025) 

This operational bulletin summarises public-health needs, disease outbreaks, service disruptions, response activities and health sector priorities (vaccination, cholera/epidemic surveillance, facility functionality) for the month of May 2025 used by clusters and partners for coordination. 

Child Alert: Darfur, 20 Years On, Children Under Threat

This UNICEF report (April 2026) documents the humanitarian situation facing children in Darfur, with data on attacks on schools and health facilities, grave violations against children, malnutrition rates (4.2 million cases of acute malnutrition projected across Sudan in 2026), school closures, and displacement, drawing comparisons with the 2005 Darfur crisis to underscore the scale of the current emergency.

Delivering Hope in Fragile Times: The Story of the Sudan Family Support Program

This World Bank programme report documents the impact of the ongoing conflict on Sudan's economic, social, and humanitarian landscape. It covers progress and constraints in restoring access to water, health, nutrition, education, and food security, with data on wheat production, beneficiary reach, and the operational challenges of delivering development assistance in an active conflict environment.

“If Bullets Miss, Hunger Won’t — Beyond the Numbers: Hunger and Conflict in Sudan”

This multi-actor publication uses qualitative and quantitative analysis to link conflict dynamics, food insecurity and schooling outcomes such as dropout, attendance, nutrition impacts on learning. 

Education Under Attack 2024 

A global report documenting attacks, military use of schools, threats, and violence against students and education personnel during 2022–2023; includes a country profile for Sudan with verified cases of attacks and misuse of school infrastructure, and policy guidance.

Education in Sudan: Challenges and Opportunities - Overview Note 

This report (World Bank 2021) provides a sector diagnosis of Sudan’s education system pre- and post-conflict, offering data on enrolment, inequities (by gender, region, urban/rural), infrastructure gaps, teacher supply and quality, and systemic constraints. It recommends leverage areas and policy reforms for recovery.

Water Sanitation Hygiene – WASH Cluster Operational Updates

This is a WASH cluster operational update reporting service gaps, urgent needs such as the number of additional latrines required based on standards, as well as cholera risk mitigation measures, coordination with the health cluster, and progress on water and sanitation access.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in a Conflict Area: A Cross-Sectional Study in South Kordofan, Sudan

This is an empirical study across 33 villages assessing water quality (microbial contamination), availability of drinking water, sanitation practices, hygiene behaviours, and community perceptions. The findings include widespread contamination, insufficient sanitation infrastructure, ongoing open defecation and gaps between perceived satisfaction and objective service levels.

Sudan Private Sector Engagement Strategy 2026–2028 

More than three years into a devastating armed conflict that has shrunk Sudan’s economy by over 40% and closed around one in three firms, a new UNDP strategy argues that backing the country’s surviving businesses – its farmers, traders, small manufacturers and diaspora-linked enterprises – is the only way to keep essential services running and ensure any chance of a quick recovery.

Livelihoods in Sudan Amid Armed Conflict: Evidence from a National Rural Household Survey 

This join report between the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) assesses the social and economic impacts of the ongoing armed conflict on rural Sudan. It presents survey data from 4,504 rural households (November 2023 - January 2024) on income sources, coping strategies, agricultural production, access to markets and services, showing conflict impacts on incomes, asset losses and service access, with disaggregation by region and livelihood type. 

Informing Durable Solutions for Internal Displacement in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan: Overview 

This World Bank report is a Volume A of a larger study. All four countries surveyed IDP populations. Based on country-level feasibility constraints, host communities and/or non-host resident communities were also surveyed. In Sudan, the survey covers two IDP camps and their host community in the city of Al Fashir. The analysis is guided by the durable solutions indicator framework, while the policy insights focus on overcoming displacement-induced vulnerability. It provides on the IDPs’ intentions to return/settle/integrate, economic conditions and implications for durable solutions programming.

New CGIAR Research on Water and Agri-Food Systems, Resilience, and Bioeconomy in Eastern Sudan

CGIAR is a global research partnership for a food-secure future dedicated to transforming food, land, and water systems in a climate crisis. Two CGIAR centers, the Alliance of Bioversity & the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the International Water Management Institute, in partnership with UNHCR, are conducting research in selected refugee and IDP-hosting sites in Sudan. In April 2026, the joint research programme launches three new research publications.

• Research Publication: Leveraging Circular Bioeconomy for Resilience in Sudan’s Refugee-Hosting Communities
• Working Paper: Water Data for Sudan’s Water, Food, and Environmental Systems
• Policy Brief: Agriculture and Water Systems in Sudan: Opportunities for Refugee and IDP Integration

A short overview of ongoing research in Sudan to collect data and evidence to inform policy development and programming:

• CGIAR and UNHCR Launch Research Program in Sudan

The UN Sudan Economists’ Network is an informal group of UN staff members working on economic-related issues in the UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes in Sudan. 

Key Objectives 

The main objectives of the UN Sudan Economists’ Network are to facilitate the exchange of views amongst members on policy issues, work together to deepen the analysis in areas of socio-economic development, and provide economic perspective, guidance and expert strategic advice to the UN country team on relevant policies and initiatives that meet the prospects of sustainable and inclusive growth in Sudan. 

Last updated: June 2026