World Risk Index

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: world-risk-index-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

WorldRiskIndex Score (0–100)is built fromExposureVulnerabilitySusceptibilityLack of Coping CapacitiesLack of Adaptive Capacities

Every column in the newest file of World Risk Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2025	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	193	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	193	0
WorldRiskIndex Score (0–100)risk_scoreHeadline	The headline figure: WorldRiskIndex score (0–100, where 100 is the most at risk).	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.18Monaco46.56Philippinesmiddle 4.17	176	0
ExposureexposurePart of the headline	How exposed the population is to earthquakes, storms, floods, droughts and sea-level rise, scored 0–100.	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.023 share it64.59Chinamiddle 1.05	146	0
VulnerabilityvulnerabilityPart of the headline	Combined susceptibility, lack of coping capacities and lack of adaptive capacities: how badly a society would suffer, scored 0–100.	Number · up to 2 decimals	1.55Monaco72.71Central African Republicmiddle 18.35	187	0
SusceptibilitysusceptibilityPart of the headline	Structural and social conditions that make it more likely people will suffer harm from an extreme natural event, scored 0–100.	Number · up to 2 decimals	1.75Monaco74.55Central African Republicmiddle 15.59	188	0
Lack of Coping Capacitieslack_of_copingPart of the headline	How little capacity society has to limit damage during and just after a hazard; 0–100, higher is worse.	Number · up to 2 decimals	0.42Monaco81.04Somaliamiddle 11.57	185	0
Lack of Adaptive Capacitieslack_of_adaptationPart of the headline	How little long-term capacity there is to adapt, through education, reducing disparities, investment and disaster preparedness; 0–100, higher is worse.	Number · up to 2 decimals	5.05Monaco77.83Central African Republicmiddle 45.28	190	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

The newest 12 of 26 years.

The same 193 countries in every year.

Not in this dataset · 31 places this site covers

IFHV gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAnguillaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamHong KongIsle of ManKosovoMacauMontserratNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern Mariana IslandsPalestinePuerto RicoSaint MartinSint MaartenSomalilandTaiwanTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum

   data.humdata.org

2. 2 · Their file

   WorldRiskIndex 2025

   worldriskindex-trend.csv

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 6, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   26 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as world-risk-index-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/world-risk-indexA key for Risk & Resilience in the Country Index.

Imported from IFHV’s trend file on the Humanitarian Data Exchange. The WorldRiskReport does print a ranking, but only inside its PDF — every machine-readable file the institute publishes carries scores and no rank column.

• Charted

  World Risk Index by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• In the Country Index

  A key for Risk & Resilience

  “Exposure to natural hazards set against the capacity a country has to cope with them.”

  Risk & Resilience standings

• Subjects

  • Risk & Resilience
  • Environment & Sustainability

• Near neighbours

  • Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN)ND-GAIN · 30 held · 1995–2024
  • Political Stability and Absence of ViolenceWorld Bank Group · 27 held · 1996–2025
  • Water StressFAO · 24 held · 2000–2023