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India Natural Disaster Profile

Basic Facts:


Area:
3,287,590 km2
Coastline: 7,000 km
Population: 1,065,070,607


GDP (PPP): $3.033 trillion
GDP Per Capita: $2,900
Population Below Poverty Line: 25%


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 (1900 - 2004)

Disaster # of Events Total Killed Avg. # Killed Total Affected Avg. # Affected
Cyclone 133 162,986 1,226 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)
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Cyclones   Droughts   Earthquakes   Floods   Landslides


Demographic Information:

Population within 1km of coast
Population within 2km 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)
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Mortality   GDP


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