When speaking about the United Nation's role in global issues, an area of concern becomes humanitarian need and whether it is sufficiently met through humanitarian funding.

The Index for Risk Management (INFORM) identifies countries at high risk of humanitarian crisis that are more likely to require international assistance. INFORM calculates risk profiles based on three dimensions of risk, outlined in scientific literature: Hazards & Exposure, Vulnerability, and Lack of Coping Capacity. The colors on the map indicate risk profiles: the darker the red, the higher the risk.

The area of the bubbles indicate the amount of humanitarian funding received by countries per 1000 people, as reported by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and normalized based on population data from the World Bank: the bigger the bubble, the more funding receieved.

All data is based on the year 2013 (the most recent available year) and was accessed through the United Nations Humanitarian Data Exchange.

While there is a very rough correlation between country risk and receieved funding, it is clear that funding does not always match up to demonstrated need. Most prominently, many countries with varying risk profiles between 0 and 6 received around the same amount of funding. Meanwhile a number of countries with risk profiles between 2 and 7 even received more funding than countries with risk profiles above 8.

The top 15 recipients of humanitarian aid in 2013 have risk profiles ranging from 2 to 9. This calls for further investigation.