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Natural disaster losses — direct economic loss as a share of GDP (annual, %)

Name: Natural disaster losses — direct economic loss as a share of GDP (annual, %)
Creator: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) — Sendai Framework Monitor
Keywords: statistic-of-the-day, ai-generated, disasters, risk, Sendai Framework, SDG 11.5.2, SDG 13.1.1, economic loss, resilience, hazards

Annual direct economic losses from natural disasters as a share of GDP (%), based on countries’ official Sendai Framework reporting (latest year).

Source: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) — Sendai Framework Monitor•183 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

0.1%

Median: 0.1%

Countries Covered

183

with available data

Highest

Haiti

0.9%

Lowest

Afghanistan

0.0%

Top 5 Countries

1Haiti0.9%

2Papua New Guinea0.9%

3Timor-Leste0.8%

4Maldives0.7%

5Vanuatu0.7%

By Region

Other0.2%(104 countries)

North America0.1%(4 countries)

Oceania0.1%(2 countries)

South America0.1%(7 countries)

Africa0.1%(9 countries)

Key Findings

•Disaster losses can represent a disproportionately large share of GDP in small island and low-GDP economies after major events.
•Large economies may show small GDP shares even when absolute damages are very high.
•Year-to-year volatility is high because a single extreme event can dominate annual losses.
•Improved disaster loss accounting often increases reported losses initially as coverage improves.

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0%)High (25.0%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 0.1%)

Other (104)

North America (4)

Oceania (2)

South America (7)

Africa (9)

Asia (25)

Europe (32)

About This Statistic

This statistic measures the direct economic loss caused by disasters (such as floods, storms, droughts, earthquakes, landslides, wildfires, and other natural hazards) expressed as a percentage of a country’s gross domestic product (GDP) for a given year. It corresponds to Sendai Framework Target C (reducing direct disaster economic loss in relation to global GDP) and is compiled from official national reporting.

Because it is reported as a share of GDP, it highlights how the same type of disaster can have very different macroeconomic impacts across countries—small economies can see large percentage losses from a single major event, while large economies may experience substantial absolute damages but a smaller GDP share. Coverage depends on countries’ reporting completeness and the year selected; the values below use the most recent year available in the 2019–2024 window for each country, as provided via the UNDRR/Sendai Monitor data pipeline.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Haiti	0.9%
2	Papua New Guinea	0.9%
3	Timor-Leste	0.8%
4	Maldives	0.7%
5	Vanuatu	0.7%
6	New Caledonia	0.6%
7	Trinidad and Tobago	0.6%
8	Barbados	0.6%
9	Jamaica	0.6%
10	Cayman Islands	0.5%
11	Seychelles	0.5%
12	Dominica	0.5%
13	Suriname	0.5%
14	Comoros	0.4%
15	Mauritius	0.4%
16	Dominican Republic	0.4%
17	Republic of The Gambia	0.4%
18	Madagascar	0.4%
19	Somalia	0.4%
20	Solomon Islands	0.4%
21	Equatorial Guinea	0.3%
22	Sierra Leone	0.3%
23	Eswatini	0.3%
24	Bermuda	0.3%
25	Nicaragua	0.3%
26	Djibouti	0.3%
27	Liberia	0.3%
28	South Sudan	0.3%
29	Botswana	0.3%
30	Guatemala	0.2%
31	Benin	0.2%
32	Ecuador	0.2%
33	Mauritania	0.2%
34	Guinea-Bissau	0.2%
35	Yemen	0.2%
36	Bahamas	0.2%
37	Cameroon	0.2%
38	Guinea	0.2%
39	Nepal	0.2%
40	Burkina Faso	0.2%
41	Republic of the Congo	0.2%
42	Gabon	0.2%
43	Honduras	0.2%
44	Lesotho	0.2%
45	Philippines	0.2%
46	Togo	0.2%
47	Belize	0.2%
48	Sri Lanka	0.2%
49	Mali	0.2%
50	Burundi	0.2%
51	El Salvador	0.2%
52	Cote d'Ivoire	0.2%
53	Mozambique	0.2%
54	Panama	0.2%
55	Senegal	0.2%
56	Uganda	0.2%
57	American Samoa	0.2%
58	Chad	0.2%
59	Ghana	0.2%
60	Malawi	0.2%
61	Lao People's Democratic Republic	0.2%
62	Niger	0.2%
63	United Republic of Tanzania	0.2%
64	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.2%
65	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.2%
66	Indonesia	0.2%
67	Peru	0.2%
68	Syrian Arab Republic	0.2%
69	Bangladesh	0.2%
70	Myanmar	0.1%
71	Kenya	0.1%
72	Rwanda	0.1%
73	Sudan	0.1%
74	Zambia	0.1%
75	Pakistan	0.1%
76	Chile	0.1%
77	Ethiopia	0.1%
78	Japan	0.1%
79	Nigeria	0.1%
80	Vietnam	0.1%
81	Zimbabwe	0.1%
82	Thailand	0.1%
83	Albania	0.1%
84	Bolivia	0.1%
85	Colombia	0.1%
86	Kyrgyzstan	0.1%
87	Tajikistan	0.1%
88	Australia	0.1%
89	Cambodia	0.1%
90	Cuba	0.1%
91	New Zealand	0.1%
92	Virgin Islands, British	0.1%
93	Bulgaria	0.1%
94	Costa Rica	0.1%
95	Faroe Islands	0.1%
96	Greece	0.1%
97	Mexico	0.1%
98	Venezuela	0.1%
99	Angola	0.1%
100	Central African Republic	0.1%
101	Eritrea	0.1%
102	India	0.1%
103	Malaysia	0.1%
104	Moldova, Republic of	0.1%
105	South Africa	0.1%
106	Armenia	0.1%
107	Canada	0.1%
108	Georgia	0.1%
109	Lebanon	0.1%
110	Morocco	0.1%
111	Paraguay	0.1%
112	Uzbekistan	0.1%
113	Azerbaijan	0.1%
114	People's Republic of China	0.1%
115	Fiji	0.1%
116	Islamic Republic of Iran	0.1%
117	Kazakhstan	0.1%
118	Montenegro	0.1%
119	Russian Federation	0.1%
120	Ukraine	0.1%
121	Samoa	0.1%
122	Austria	0.1%
123	Croatia	0.1%
124	Finland	0.1%
125	Iraq	0.1%
126	Portugal	0.1%
127	Türkiye	0.1%
128	Egypt	0.1%
129	Algeria	0.1%
130	Brunei Darussalam	0.1%
131	Cyprus	0.0%
132	Estonia	0.0%
133	Italy	0.0%
134	Libya	0.0%
135	Namibia	0.0%
136	Serbia	0.0%
137	Uruguay	0.0%
138	Bahrain	0.0%
139	Brazil	0.0%
140	Belarus	0.0%
141	Denmark	0.0%
142	France	0.0%
143	Hungary	0.0%
144	Ireland	0.0%
145	Jordan	0.0%
146	South Korea	0.0%
147	Latvia	0.0%
148	Lithuania	0.0%
149	Malta	0.0%
150	Country 532	0.0%
151	Romania	0.0%
152	Spain	0.0%
153	Tunisia	0.0%
154	The Republic of North Macedonia	0.0%
155	United States of America	0.0%
156	Argentina	0.0%
157	Cape Verde	0.0%
158	Czech Republic	0.0%
159	Germany	0.0%
160	Israel	0.0%
161	Kuwait	0.0%
162	Mongolia	0.0%
163	Oman	0.0%
164	Netherlands	0.0%
165	Poland	0.0%
166	Slovakia	0.0%
167	Slovenia	0.0%
168	United Kingdom	0.0%
169	Andorra	0.0%
170	Belgium	0.0%
171	Iceland	0.0%
172	North Korea	0.0%
173	Luxembourg	0.0%
174	Norway	0.0%
175	Qatar	0.0%
176	Saudi Arabia	0.0%
177	Singapore	0.0%
178	Sweden	0.0%
179	Switzerland	0.0%
180	United Arab Emirates	0.0%
181	Antigua and Barbuda	0.0%
182	Bhutan	0.0%
183	Afghanistan	0.0%

Showing 183 of 183 countries

Topics

#statistic-of-the-day #ai-generated #disasters #risk #Sendai Framework #SDG 11.5.2 #SDG 13.1.1 #economic loss #resilience #hazards

Data Source

This data comes from United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) — Sendai Framework Monitor (2023).

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