USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U S Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, according to Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health’s Atul Gawande
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts After pausing all foreign aid assistance by executive order on Inauguration Day, the administration permanently cancelled 83 percent of USAID’s global contracts just weeks later—a decision that public health experts warned would lead to preventable deaths and accelerate disease spread
How Many People Died Because USAID Funding Was Cut in Models and real-time trackers estimate that hundreds of thousands of additional people died in 2025 because major USAID programs were halted or sharply curtailed, with published and public-facing efforts producing a plausible 2025 range from roughly 500,000 up to more than 1 6 million excess deaths depending on the metric and modeling choices
Update on Lives Lost from USAID Cuts | Center For Global Development In a CEPR chapter back in June 2025, we calculated that the USAID program cancellations announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio could contribute to as many as 500,000 to 700,000 additional deaths annually
A Year After USAID’s Termination: The Impact Has Been ‘Devastating’ By July, 90% of USAID contracts were canceled as the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, dismantled the agency under the watch of Elon Musk and shifted fragments of its portfolio to the State Department
The Forecasted Death Toll of Shuttering USAID - TIME Just how many lives won’t be saved as a result of the closure of USAID has been the subject of several studies and projections On Monday, medical research journal The Lancet estimated that
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