Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2015
Making development sustainable: The future of disaster risk management |
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Part I
Notes
1 WHO Factsheet No. 358, March 2013: http://www.who.int/ mediacentre/factsheets/fs358/en/.
2 World Bank data: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP. MKTP.CD/countries/1W?display=graph. 3 http://www.who.int/topics/global_burden_of_disease/en (accessed 3 January 2015). 4 For details on the methodology, please see Noy, 2014 Noy, Ilan. 2014,A New Non-Monetary Global Measure of the Direct Impact of Natural Disasters, Background Paper prepared for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. Geneva, Switzerland: UNISDR.. Click here to view this GAR paper. 5 Calculated using data on DALYs from the WHO: http://www. who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/estimates/en/ index2.html. In particular, more life years are lost per capita in low-income countries than in any other income group (Figure I.3).
These findings suggest that while disaster risk is a universal problem that affects all regions and
(Source: Noy, 2014
Noy, Ilan. 2014,A New Non-Monetary Global Measure of the Direct Impact of Natural Disasters, Background Paper prepared for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. Geneva, Switzerland: UNISDR.. Click here to view this GAR paper. (Source: UNISDR with data from Noy, 2014
Noy, Ilan. 2014,A New Non-Monetary Global Measure of the Direct Impact of Natural Disasters, Background Paper prepared for the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction. Geneva, Switzerland: UNISDR.. Click here to view this GAR paper. Figure I.2 Share of life years lost across income groups
Figure I.3 Lost life years relative to population, 1990 - 2012
income groups, as a development challenge it continues to be concentrated in low and middle-income countries. As explored in detail in the different chapters of this part of the report, these are the countries that will need to increase capital investment and social expenditure substantially if they are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and whose capacity to do so will be challenged by increasing disaster risk.
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