Description: Vulnerability to tropical cyclones has decreased in all regions since 2000. However, even though the vulnerability of low-income countries in 2010 was about 20 percent lower than in 1980, it was still 225 times higher than in OECD countries. The most significant reduction in vulnerability has been in lowermiddle-income countries, where vulnerability in 2010 was less than half that in 1980. Global tropical cyclone mortality risk is also decreasing (Figure 2.12), a trend largely
controlled by a very significant reduction in risk in East Asia and the Pacific. In the OECD and sub-Saharan Africa, increased exposure is being offset by reduced vulnerability. However, in Latin America and the Caribbean, and South Asia, risk in 2010 remained higher than in 1990.
Published in: 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - Revealing Risk, Redefining Development
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