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Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct) 2023

Published 2023 · describes 2019 · stored as published, never rewritten

Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct) 2023 covers 164 countries. Somalia is highest, at 5.0000; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 2.4031.

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Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct) · Edition 2023

HighestSomalia

5.0000

Lowest2 countries share it

0.0000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01WRI’s rank

The table

Every country and every column of Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct) 2023, as published. The rank is WRI’s own, as printed. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 164 countries · select a heading to sort

Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct) 2023: every country, as published by World Resources Institute (WRI).
1SomaliaSOMEastern Africa5.0000Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
2MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa4.8411Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
3LiberiaLBRWestern Africa4.7939Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
4BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia4.6430Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
5CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia4.4614Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
6MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia4.4021Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
7South SudanSSDEastern Africa4.3535Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
8KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia4.3091Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
9AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia4.2689Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
10TajikistanTJKCentral Asia4.2123Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
11DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa4.1859Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
12VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia4.1855Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
13LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia4.1847Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
14IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia4.1578Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
15GuyanaGUYSouth America4.1272Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
16MadagascarMDGEastern Africa4.1175Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
17RwandaRWAEastern Africa4.1146Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
18ChadTCDMiddle Africa4.0999Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
19LebanonLBNWestern Asia4.0588Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
20MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa4.0581Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa4.0568Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
22MaliMLIWestern Africa4.0544Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
23North KoreaPRKEastern Asia4.0504Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
24Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa4.0495Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)
25MalawiMWIEastern Africa4.0468Extremely High (more than 1 in 100)

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. #1Somalia5.0000
  2. #2Mauritania4.8411
  3. #3Liberia4.7939
  4. #4Bangladesh4.6430
  5. #5Cambodia4.4614

Lowest

  1. #163San Marinoshared0.0000
  2. #163Andorrashared0.0000
  3. #162Israel0.0903
  4. #161Netherlands0.1567
  5. #160Bahrain0.1770

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 2.4031. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • This edition describes 2019

    WRI names each edition for the year it is released; the figures in Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct) 2023 are for 2019.

  • 163 distinct values among 164

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 9 decimals. 2 countries share 0.0000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The rank is WRI’s

    Printed exactly as the publisher ranked the countries. This site does not re-rank them.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 164 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

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.

Licence: CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution). Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

World Resources Institute (WRI) (2023). Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct) 2023 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/river-flood-risk/2023

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06Questions

Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct) 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest river flood risk in Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct) 2023?

Somalia, at 5.0000, of the 164 countries in the file.

What year does Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct) 2023 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct) 2023 cover?

164.

Where can I download Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct) 2023?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct) 2023 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-29, when it was read from the publisher.

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