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India Natural Disaster Risk Analysis

India is prone to several natural disasters that cause loss of life and economic damage. Floods and droughts impact most of the country, with floods prevalent in the northwest and droughts in the east. Earthquakes and other geophysical hazards pose the highest risks in the Himalayan north and northeast, ranking high for mortality but lower for GDP impact. Cyclones affect a smaller area but rank highly in both mortality and economic losses. Overall, almost all of India faces threats from at least one natural hazard, with mortality risks greatest in the north and northeast.

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India Natural Disaster Risk Analysis

India is prone to several natural disasters that cause loss of life and economic damage. Floods and droughts impact most of the country, with floods prevalent in the northwest and droughts in the east. Earthquakes and other geophysical hazards pose the highest risks in the Himalayan north and northeast, ranking high for mortality but lower for GDP impact. Cyclones affect a smaller area but rank highly in both mortality and economic losses. Overall, almost all of India faces threats from at least one natural hazard, with mortality risks greatest in the north and northeast.

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India Natural Disaster Profile

Basic Facts:
Area: 3,287,590 km2 GDP (PPP): $3.033 trillion
Coastline: 7,000 km GDP Per Capita: $2,900
Population: 1,065,070,607 Population Below Poverty Line: 25%

Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots:

Cyclones Droughts Earthquakes

Floods Landslides

Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots (Weighted by Mortality)

Cyclones Droughts Earthquakes

Floods Landslides
EM-DAT Information (1900-2004):
Disaster # of Events Total Killed Avg. # Killed Total Affected Avg. # Affected
Cyclone 133 162,986 1226 91,322,407 686,635
Drought 21 4,250,430 202,401 1,391,841,000 66,278,143
Earthquake 24 60,396 2,517 27,108,561 1,129,523
Flood 158 51,020 323 663,187,348 4,197,388
Volcano - - - - -

Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots (Weighted by Proportion of GDP Impacted)

Cyclones Droughts Earthquakes

Floods Landslides

Demographic Information:
Population within 1km of coast Population within 2 km of coast Infant Mortality Rate
1,642,855 3,398,071 57.92

Multi-Hazard Disaster Risk Hotspots (All Hazards combined and weighted by


Mortality and Proportion of GDP Impacted)

Mortality GDP
Multi-Hazard Disaster Risk Hotspots by Hazard Groups (Top Three Deciles)

Observations
Floods and droughts significantly impact the majority of India though they are
most prevalent in the northwestern and eastern regions respectively. Geophysical
hazards affect the Himalayan region in the north and northeastern portions of the
country where they rank in high deciles for mortality and lower deciles for GDP impact.
Cyclones influence a relatively small area of the country but have high-ranking mortality
and GDP weighted impacts. Lastly, both the multi-hazard mortality and GDP maps
demonstrate that almost the entire country is significantly impacted by at least one
hazard and mortality impacts are particularly concentrated in the north and northeastern
regions.

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