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Kenya Natural Disaster Profile

Basic Facts:


Area:
582,650 km2
Coastline: 536 km
Population: 32,021,856


GDP (PPP): $33.03 billion
GDP Per Capita: $1,000
Population Below Poverty Line: 50%


Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots
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Droughts   Floods   Landslides


Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots (Weighted by Mortality)
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Droughts   Floods   Landslides

EM-DAT Information (1964 - 2004)

Disaster # of Events Total Killed Avg. # Killed Total Affected Avg. # Affected
Cyclone 1 50 50 0 0
Drought 11 165 15 16,312,600 1,482,964
Earthquake 1 0 0 0 0
Flood 17 524 31 1,203,508 70,795
Volcano - - - - -


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


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
Droughts and floods are the most significant hazards affecting Kenya. The maps exclude hazard impacts in non-agricultural areas where small populations were masked out of the maps. Although droughts and floods show large impacts when weighted by mortality, the effects of droughts are more severe, particularly in the north. When weighted by GDP impact, droughts pose a substantially higher risk than floods throughout the country.

 

 
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