World summarized catastrophe risk profiles
This publication intends to provide a glimpse into the disaster risk situation of any country. It comes to be a fundamental reference for the Governments to know the order of magnitude of their contingent liabilities due to potential disasters.
With this report, the countries can know their relative situation to other countries of their region, and to bear in mind the implications that disaster risk has on their development from the social, economic and financial growth perspectives.
This document is a background paper of the 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction.