New Delhi, June 30 -- Living in areas with lingering conflict comes with many life-long stifling punishments, even if one survives the violence, said the World Bank in a report Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations: Intertwined Crises, Multiple Vulnerabilities released on June 27, 2025.

Losing life expectancy to high infant and maternal mortality and severe food insecurity, some one billion people residing in 39 economies (countries, territories) in fragile and conflict situations have not experienced an easing in their extreme poverty levels in the last 15 years.

"In developing economies in general, the extreme-poverty rate has been whittled down to single digits - just 6 per cent. In economies facing conflict or instability, howeve...