Warconomy tracks the economic cost of post-conflict reconstruction from official joint assessments (e.g. the World Bank-led Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment). It covers reconstruction/recovery cost estimates only — not casualties, not graphic content, and not political blame. Coverage is partial and not real-time: a reconstruction figure is only as current as the assessment it cites. Today the source-linked reconstruction indicator is Ukraine's RDNA4 recovery need; other theatres are listed under data needs and ship only if official estimates can be directly verified.
- Reconstruction/recovery cost estimates only — no casualties, no blame, no graphic content.
- Source: official joint assessments (World Bank / UN / EU / government).
- Partial coverage; not real-time; an estimate as current as its assessment.
Source-linked reconstruction indicator
- Ukraine reconstruction & recovery need: 524 USD billion (as of December 2024 (RDNA4)) — Ukraine — Fourth Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA4). Full context on the Russia–Ukraine economic-impact page.
Data needs (not yet shipped)
These would each require at least two directly-verifiable indicators from an official joint assessment before shipping. They are listed for transparency, not as coverage.
- Ukraine sector breakdown — RDNA sector-level damage and needs, if exact figures are directly readable.
- Other theatres — only with official World Bank / UN / EU / government reconstruction-cost estimates that are directly verifiable and within the economic-cost scope.
Scope & limitations
- Economic/reconstruction cost only — no casualty figures, no graphic content, no political blame.
- Estimates are periodically revised and use differing methods.
- Partial coverage; not real-time; not a causal attribution.
Key terms
- Reconstruction cost — The estimated cost to rebuild after conflict (e.g. the World Bank-led RDNA for Ukraine). A periodically-revised institutional estimate, not a settled figure.
- Economic impact — How an event or policy (a war, sanction, or chokepoint disruption) is associated with economic variables — prices, trade flows, revenue, costs — tracked through source-linked indicators rather than narrative.