Trend in exposure to tropical cyclones per income region as observed

Description: Over half of all tropical cyclones that made landfall affected East Asia and the Pacific and OECD countries (mainly Japan, the United States of America and Australia). Although most of the annual average exposure to tropical cyclones is concentrated in lower-middle- and high-income
countries, exposure is growing most rapidly in low-income countries where it has increased almost eight-fold since the 1970s (the dip in exposure in the 1990s reflects fewer cyclones in that decade)..
Published in: 2011 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction - Revealing Risk, Redefining Development
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