Percentage change in economic loss risk, exposure and vulnerability to tropical cyclones in East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and OECD countries as modelled, 1980– 2010 (compared to baseline year 1980)

Description: Economic loss risk for cyclones is increasing in all regions. It has almost quadrupled (increasing by 265 %  since 1980 in the OECD, almost tripled in sub-Saharan Africa (181  %), and is more than two-and-a-half times greater in other regions (over 150 % higher). In East Asia and the Pacific, and South Asia, risk is increasing because reductions in vulnerability are not offsetting rapidly increasing exposure. In terms of income regions economic loss risk has almost quadrupled (increasing by 262 %) in high-income countries, and is more than two-and-a-half times greater in upper-middle-income countries (165 % , lower-middle-income countries (152 %)  and low-income countries (155 %) . Thus economic strength has failed to reduce economic loss risk, even in the OECD.
Published in: 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - Revealing Risk, Redefining Development
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