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Somalia Natural Disaster Profile
Basic Facts:
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Area: 637,657
km2
Coastline:
3,025 km
Population:
8,304,601
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GDP (PPP):
$4.361 billion
GDP
Per Capita: $500
Population Below Poverty Line:
N/A
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Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots
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Floods |
Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots (Weighted
by Mortality)
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Floods |
EM-DAT Information (1961 - 2004)
| Disaster |
# of Events |
Total Killed |
Avg. # Killed |
Total Affected |
Avg. # Affected |
| Cyclone |
1 |
30 |
30 |
0 |
0 |
| Drought |
12 |
19,671 |
1,639 |
3,963,500 |
330,292 |
| Earthquake |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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| Flood |
18 |
2,671 |
148 |
1,772,300 |
98,461 |
| Volcano |
- |
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Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots (Weighted
by Proportion of GDP Impacted)
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| Droughts |
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Floods |
Multi-Hazard Disaster Risk Hotspots
(All Hazards combined and weighted by Mortality and Proportion
of GDP Impacted)
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Multi-Hazard Disaster Risk Hotspots
by Hazard Groups (Top Three Deciles)
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Observations
Droughts and floods are the two dominant
hazards affecting the majority of the country. The maps exclude
hazard impacts in non-agricultural areas where small populations
have been masked out due to limited information. When weighted
by mortality droughts pose a larger risk to the country than
do floods. Similarly, droughts uniformly rank in the highest
deciles when considering GDP impacted. Compared to the rest
of the world, Somalia ranks in the top deciles (largest risk)
for the multi-hazard maps when weighted by both mortality
and GDP.
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