A compass for a hurting, improvable world
Understand the world. Reduce suffering. Expand your circle of care.
Impact Compass is a free app covering twenty-five of humanity's biggest problems — what they really are, what the evidence says actually works against them, and a concrete path for you to help with your money, time, skills, or voice.
The Problem Atlas
- Extreme Poverty — roughly 800 million people live on less than $3.00 a day
- Malaria — roughly 600,000 deaths a year, most of them children under five
- Child Mortality — roughly 5 million children under five die each year, most from preventable causes
- Hunger & Malnutrition — roughly 700 million people are undernourished
- Unsafe Water & Sanitation — roughly 2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water
- Education Gaps — roughly 250 million children and youth are out of school
- Loneliness & Mental Health — roughly 1 in 4 adults worldwide report feeling seriously lonely
- Homelessness — rough estimates put 150 million people without homes worldwide
- Refugees & Displacement — roughly 120 million people are forcibly displaced
- Climate Change — the planet is roughly 1.3°C warmer than pre-industrial times
- Air Pollution — roughly 7–8 million premature deaths a year
- Gender Inequality — roughly 12 million girls are married as children each year
- Factory Farming — roughly 80+ billion land animals are slaughtered yearly
- Preventable Blindness — roughly 1 billion people have vision impairment that could be prevented or corrected
- Pandemic Preparedness — COVID-19 caused roughly 20–28 million excess deaths; the next one is a matter of when
- Tuberculosis — roughly 1.25 million deaths a year, the world's deadliest infectious disease
- Lead Poisoning — roughly 1 in 3 children worldwide has blood lead levels high enough to harm their development
- Maternal Mortality — roughly 260,000–290,000 women die each year from pregnancy and childbirth, almost all preventably
- Road Traffic Deaths — roughly 1.2 million deaths a year, the leading killer of ages 5–29
- Tobacco — roughly 8 million deaths a year, the leading preventable cause of death
- HIV / AIDS — roughly 630,000 deaths a year and 40 million people living with HIV
- Neglected Tropical Diseases — over 1 billion people affected by diseases most have never heard of
- Digital Exclusion — roughly 2.6 billion people, a third of humanity, remain offline
- Corruption — bribery alone estimated at roughly $1 trillion a year
- Ocean Health — roughly 8–11 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean each year
Each problem includes root causes, who suffers most, a misconception corrected, evidence-rated interventions with honest cost-per-outcome, and concrete actions. Figures are approximations from public sources such as Our World in Data, WHO, UNICEF, and GiveWell.