environmental2024

Adults experiencing a natural disaster or severe weather event

Name: Adults experiencing a natural disaster or severe weather event
Creator: World Bank World Development Indicators
Keywords: trending-statistics-research, daily-10, severe-weather-experience

Compare adults experiencing a natural disaster or severe weather event across 97 ISO-mapped countries or territories using one fixed 2024 official-source slice.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators•97 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

24.7% of adults age 15+

Median: 20.6% of adults age 15+

Countries Covered

with available data

Highest

Philippines

77.5% of adults age 15+

Lowest

Montenegro

2.7% of adults age 15+

Top 5 Countries

1Philippines77.5% of adults age 15+

2Chad76.1% of adults age 15+

3Morocco64.3% of adults age 15+

4Mozambique64.2% of adults age 15+

5Zambia62.8% of adults age 15+

By Region

Key Findings

•97 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2024 observation.
•Philippines has the highest published value (77.5419970869774 % of adults age 15+).
•Montenegro has the lowest published value (2.73780877651427 % of adults age 15+).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (2.7% of adults age 15+)High (77.5% of adults age 15+)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 24.7% of adults age 15+)

About This Statistic

The percentage of respondents who report they personally experienced a natural disaster or severe weather event in the past three years, (% age 15+)

MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and explicit source slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies and conflicting duplicates are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.

Methodology

The percentage of respondents who report they personally experienced a natural disaster or severe weather event in the past three years, (% age 15+)

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Philippines	77.5% of adults age 15+
2	Chad	76.1% of adults age 15+
3	Morocco	64.3% of adults age 15+
4	Mozambique	64.2% of adults age 15+
5	Zambia	62.8% of adults age 15+
6	Malawi	61.0% of adults age 15+
7	Madagascar	60.5% of adults age 15+
8	Zimbabwe	57.0% of adults age 15+
9	Armenia	56.7% of adults age 15+
10	Comoros	55.6% of adults age 15+
11	Eswatini	46.3% of adults age 15+
12	Niger	44.1% of adults age 15+
13	Guinea	42.9% of adults age 15+
14	Burkina Faso	42.6% of adults age 15+
15	Lesotho	42.5% of adults age 15+
16	Belize	42.1% of adults age 15+
17	Uganda	41.6% of adults age 15+
18	Benin	41.4% of adults age 15+
19	Mauritania	40.3% of adults age 15+
20	Mauritius	37.2% of adults age 15+
21	Paraguay	36.6% of adults age 15+
22	Islamic Republic of Iran	34.6% of adults age 15+
23	Bangladesh	34.4% of adults age 15+
24	Sierra Leone	31.9% of adults age 15+
25	State of Palestine	31.8% of adults age 15+
26	Dominican Republic	31.2% of adults age 15+
27	Mali	31.1% of adults age 15+
28	Senegal	29.7% of adults age 15+
29	Liberia	29.3% of adults age 15+
30	Gabon	26.3% of adults age 15+
31	Cambodia	26.2% of adults age 15+
32	India	25.7% of adults age 15+
33	Pakistan	25.6% of adults age 15+
34	Sri Lanka	25.5% of adults age 15+
35	Kenya	25.3% of adults age 15+
36	Mongolia	25.2% of adults age 15+
37	Peru	25.0% of adults age 15+
38	Iraq	24.7% of adults age 15+
39	Togo	24.4% of adults age 15+
40	People's Republic of China	24.2% of adults age 15+
41	Honduras	24.0% of adults age 15+
42	Democratic Republic of the Congo	22.3% of adults age 15+
43	Jordan	22.1% of adults age 15+
44	South Africa	21.9% of adults age 15+
45	Namibia	21.7% of adults age 15+
46	Bolivia	21.4% of adults age 15+
47	Guatemala	21.4% of adults age 15+
48	Republic of the Congo	21.0% of adults age 15+
49	Oman	20.6% of adults age 15+
50	Nicaragua	20.3% of adults age 15+
51	Venezuela	19.5% of adults age 15+
52	Botswana	19.1% of adults age 15+
53	El Salvador	19.1% of adults age 15+
54	Republic of The Gambia	18.7% of adults age 15+
55	Nigeria	18.7% of adults age 15+
56	Lao People's Democratic Republic	18.4% of adults age 15+
57	Cote d'Ivoire	17.1% of adults age 15+
58	Ecuador	16.8% of adults age 15+
59	Cameroon	16.5% of adults age 15+
60	Kazakhstan	16.1% of adults age 15+
61	Indonesia	16.0% of adults age 15+
62	Nepal	15.7% of adults age 15+
63	Mexico	15.6% of adults age 15+
64	Azerbaijan	15.5% of adults age 15+
65	Ukraine	15.4% of adults age 15+
66	Lebanon	15.0% of adults age 15+
67	Türkiye	15.0% of adults age 15+
68	Libya	14.4% of adults age 15+
69	United Republic of Tanzania	13.8% of adults age 15+
70	Thailand	13.6% of adults age 15+
71	Tajikistan	13.3% of adults age 15+
72	Malaysia	12.8% of adults age 15+
73	Ethiopia	12.5% of adults age 15+
74	Georgia	12.5% of adults age 15+
75	Ghana	12.4% of adults age 15+
76	Colombia	11.9% of adults age 15+
77	Serbia	11.4% of adults age 15+
78	Argentina	11.3% of adults age 15+
79	Kyrgyzstan	11.0% of adults age 15+
80	Bosnia and Herzegovina	10.4% of adults age 15+
81	Costa Rica	10.2% of adults age 15+
82	Vietnam	9.9% of adults age 15+
83	Panama	9.6% of adults age 15+
84	Moldova, Republic of	9.3% of adults age 15+
85	Brazil	8.5% of adults age 15+
86	Croatia	8.3% of adults age 15+
87	Bulgaria	7.3% of adults age 15+
88	Romania	7.0% of adults age 15+
89	The Republic of North Macedonia	5.7% of adults age 15+
90	Saudi Arabia	5.2% of adults age 15+
91	Egypt	5.1% of adults age 15+
92	Tunisia	4.5% of adults age 15+
93	Albania	4.4% of adults age 15+
94	Algeria	3.7% of adults age 15+
95	Uzbekistan	3.5% of adults age 15+
96	Poland	2.8% of adults age 15+
97	Montenegro	2.7% of adults age 15+

Showing 97 of 97 countries

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Data Source

This data comes from World Bank World Development Indicators (2024).

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