Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather, 2024

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Adults Who Experienced a Natural Disaster or Severe Weather, 2024: every country, as published by World Bank Group.

Positionderived	Country	Adults who experienced a natural disaster or severe weather in the past three years (%)	Female	Male
1	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia	77.542	77.10	78.00
2	ChadTCDMiddle Africa	76.108	75.72	76.52
3	MoroccoMARNorthern Africa	64.332	65.85	62.73
4	MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa	64.237	69.57	58.86
5	ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	62.836	63.60	62.00
6	MalawiMWIEastern Africa	61.030	60.87	61.21
7	MadagascarMDGEastern Africa	60.459	58.04	63.08
8	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	56.996	54.39	59.97
9	ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	56.709	57.55	55.67
10	ComorosCOMEastern Africa	55.568	54.69	56.58
11	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	46.287	42.37	51.39
12	NigerNERWestern Africa	44.073	48.76	39.09
13	GuineaGINWestern Africa	42.918	41.03	44.81
14	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	42.613	43.58	41.53
15	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	42.468	41.32	43.82
16	BelizeBLZCentral America	42.060	35.30	49.57
17	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	41.641	44.27	38.62
18	BeninBENWestern Africa	41.420	37.30	46.11
19	MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa	40.328	42.77	37.59
20	MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	37.172	37.75	36.59
21	ParaguayPRYSouth America	36.641	36.38	36.91
22	IranIRNSouthern Asia	34.579	32.17	36.98
23	BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia	34.392	33.18	35.64
24	Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa	31.886	29.25	34.69
25	PalestinePSEWestern Asia	31.797	34.42	29.24

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 20.455. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestPhilippines77.10

  LowestCosta Rica8.13

  Middle country: 21.47

• Male

  HighestPhilippines78.00

  LowestKyrgyzstan9.31

  Middle country: 24.39

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  World Bank Group’s own file, on its own site.

  WB_FINDEX_WIDEF.csv

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

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