Area:144,000
km2 Coastline:
580 km Population:
141,340,476
GDP (PPP):
$258.8 billion GDP Per Capita:
$1,900 Population Below Poverty Line:
35.6%
Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots
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Cyclones
Droughts
Earthquakes
Floods
Landslides
Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots (Weighted by Mortality)
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Cyclones
Droughts
Earthquakes
Floods
Landslides
EM-DAT Information (1907 - 2004)
Disaster
# of Events
Total Killed
Avg. # Killed
Total Affected
Avg. # Affected
Cyclone
137
614,112
4,483
63,817,281
465,820
Drought
5
18
4
25,002,000
5,000,400
Earthquake
6
34
6
19,125
3,188
Flood
64
50,310
786
369,678,156
5,776,221
Volcano
-
-
-
-
-
Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots (Weighted by Proportion of
GDP Impacted)
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Cyclones
Droughts
Earthquakes
Floods
Landslides
Demographic Information:
Population within 1km
of coast
Population within 2km
of coast
Infant Mortality Rate
5,827,219
10,331,836
64.32
Multi-Hazard Disaster Risk Hotspots (All Hazards combined
and weighted by Mortality and Proportion of GDP Impacted)
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Mortality
GDP
Multi-Hazard Disaster Risk Hotspots
by Hazard Groups (Top Three Deciles)
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Observations The hotspots maps indicate that cyclones
and floods pose the greatest risk to Bangladesh on a country
level. Sub nationally, the northern and eastern regions of
the country are susceptible to earthquakes while the southeast
is particularly vulnerable to all five hazards. Lastly, the
combined multi-hazard maps for mortality and GDP show that
Bangladesh ranks in the top 3 deciles of risk when compared
to the rest of the world.
