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State of World Population 2015

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2015 RISK The overall risk index identifies countries at risk from humanitarian crises and disasters that could overwhelm national response capacity. It is made up of three dimensions—hazards and exposure, vulnerability and lack of coping capacity. This map shows details for the 12 countries with the highest overall risk.

Sudan

Syrian Arab Republic

Iraq

Afghanistan

3-year trend: Hazard: 7.29 Vulnerability: 7.18 Lack of coping capacity: 7.26

3-year trend: Hazard: 8.39 Vulnerability: 5.99 Lack of coping capacity: 5.92

3-year trend: Hazard: 8.21 Vulnerability: 5.98 Lack of coping capacity: 7.02

3-year trend: Hazard: 8.71 Vulnerability: 6.87 Lack of coping capacity: 8.19

Risk: 7.24

Risk: 6.67

Risk: 7.01

Risk: 7.88

Chad

Risk: 6.84

3-year trend: Hazard: 4.58 Vulnerability: 7.80 Lack of coping capacity: 8.95

Mali

Risk: 6.73

3-year trend: Hazard: 6.01 Vulnerability: 6.51 Lack of coping capacity: 7.80

Central African Republic

Myanmar

Risk: 8.16

Risk: 6.77

3-year trend: Hazard: 7.78 Vulnerability: 8.15 Lack of coping capacity: 8.56

3-year trend: Hazard: 8.22 Vulnerability: 5.41 Lack of coping capacity: 7.00

Democratic Republic of Congo Risk: 7.00

South Sudan

Somalia

Yemen

3-year trend: Hazard: 6.96 Vulnerability: 7.72 Lack of coping capacity: 8.92

3-year trend: Hazard: 8.63 Vulnerability: 8.36 Lack of coping capacity: 9.55

3-year trend: Hazard: 7.95 Vulnerability: 5.65 Lack of coping capacity: 8.19

Risk: 7.83

3-year trend: Hazard: 5.42 Vulnerability: 7.60 Lack of coping capacity: 8.33

Risk: 8.83

Risk: 7.17

INFORM RISK INDEX 3.29

2.30

0

4.64

10 KEY

Low

Medium

High

Very high

Not included

(INFORM, 2015)

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A FRAG I LE WO RLD

Increasing risk

Stable

Decreasing risk


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