Arab Human Development Report for 2016 is out, and, as usual, it’s grim. We’re collectively about 5% of the world’s population, the UN-sponsored document tells us, but the Arab world is also home to 45% of all global terror attacks, more than 50% of the world’s refugees, nearly 50% of the world’s internally displaced persons, nearly 70% of the world’s annual battle deaths and nearly one of every five conflicts to have taken place since 1948. And that’s just through 2014, the report says. Setting aside Libya, more than 50% of people across the region (and as high as 88% of Egyptians and Tunisians) say the most important challenge facing their country is “the economic situation (poverty, unemployment and price increases). The Arab world is one of the most urban-centric in the world, and the informal economy continues to absorb the largest number of new labor market entrants each year. We would go on, but that litany has already threatened to ruin our morning. You can hit the landing page for the report, view the report in its entirety (pdf), or read the executive summary (pdf.)

The Economist got an advance copy and has a piece out based on the report suggesting the end of the world is nigh: “Another Arab awakening is looming, warns a UN report.”