{
  "title": "Reconstruction Register",
  "units": "Billions of US dollars, as reported (not inflation-adjusted by this study)",
  "published": "2026-04",
  "measures": [
    "damage",
    "loss",
    "needs"
  ],
  "reportedTotals": [
    35.2,
    22.7,
    71.4
  ],
  "sectorSums": [
    35.18,
    22.73,
    71.37
  ],
  "sectors": [
    {
      "name": "Food systems",
      "damage": 1.44,
      "loss": 1.46,
      "needs": 10.49
    },
    {
      "name": "Commerce & industry",
      "damage": 6.35,
      "loss": 2.48,
      "needs": 8.99
    },
    {
      "name": "Finance",
      "damage": 0.02,
      "loss": 0.93,
      "needs": 0.61
    },
    {
      "name": "Cultural heritage",
      "damage": 0.15,
      "loss": 0.09,
      "needs": 0.23
    },
    {
      "name": "Education",
      "damage": 1.08,
      "loss": 2.36,
      "needs": 4.71
    },
    {
      "name": "Social protection",
      "damage": 0.02,
      "loss": 1.56,
      "needs": 5.78
    },
    {
      "name": "Health",
      "damage": 1.39,
      "loss": 6.78,
      "needs": 10.03
    },
    {
      "name": "Housing",
      "damage": 18.01,
      "loss": 1.06,
      "needs": 16.21
    },
    {
      "name": "Communications",
      "damage": 0.2,
      "loss": 0.35,
      "needs": 0.5
    },
    {
      "name": "Energy",
      "damage": 0.57,
      "loss": 0.16,
      "needs": 2.73
    },
    {
      "name": "Municipal services",
      "damage": 0.62,
      "loss": 0.38,
      "needs": 0.86
    },
    {
      "name": "Water & sanitation",
      "damage": 1.7,
      "loss": 0.68,
      "needs": 4.24
    },
    {
      "name": "Transport",
      "damage": 3.21,
      "loss": 1.18,
      "needs": 1.54
    },
    {
      "name": "Environment",
      "damage": 0.15,
      "loss": 0.22,
      "needs": 2.65
    },
    {
      "name": "Land",
      "damage": 0.01,
      "loss": 0.16,
      "needs": 0.03
    },
    {
      "name": "Employment",
      "damage": 0.02,
      "loss": 2.77,
      "needs": 1.24
    },
    {
      "name": "Governance",
      "damage": 0.24,
      "loss": 0.11,
      "needs": 0.53
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "title": "Gaza Strip Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment, April 2026",
    "authors": [
      "World Bank",
      "European Union",
      "United Nations"
    ],
    "url": "https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/e539cbf23b348c3d4fc69b8a7e9c9d7d-0280062026/original/Gaza-RDNA-2026-Final-April-19.pdf",
    "table": "Table 1, printed pages 7\u20138 (PDF pages 9\u201310), visually verified",
    "sha256": "10824f4d1db7d0740616543e33ae810445c947eef30ccde58cdb48400c71a041",
    "rights": "Copyright 2026 World Bank, European Union, United Nations. Reproduction permitted for non-commercial purposes with full attribution, subject to further permissions noted in the report. Not an open CC license."
  },
  "method": {
    "damage": "Replacement cost of destroyed or damaged physical assets at pre-crisis prices, incurred October 8, 2023\u2013October 9, 2025.",
    "loss": "Disrupted income and services, additional operating and displacement costs. Includes conflict-period losses and projections up to three years into the future.",
    "needs": "Estimated recovery and reconstruction resources for an immediate-to-five-year horizon, not funds already provided.",
    "geometry": "Each sector is an equal-width abstract bay. All three fields use the same zero-based linear dollar-height scale. Horizontal courses represent $1 billion; partial courses preserve exact published amounts. Shapes are monetary quantities, not buildings or mapped locations.",
    "totals": "Published headline totals retained separately from rounded sector sums; no adjustment or allocation of rounding differences. Never add damage, loss and needs into a combined total.",
    "sourceConflict": "Table 1 and Figure 5 in the same PDF disagree on needs for finance, governance and employment. This study consistently transcribes Table 1: 0.61, 0.53 and 1.24 respectively; it does not mix the figures."
  },
  "attribution": "Adapted by Luke Steuber from World Bank, European Union and United Nations, Gaza Strip Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (April 2026), Table 1. This is an adaptation of an original work by the World Bank, EU, and UN. Views and opinions expressed in the adaptation are the sole responsibility of the author or authors of the adaptation and are not endorsed by the World Bank, EU, and UN."
}