Social indicators[1]
Population: 45.7M
GDP: USD 638.36B
Gini Index: 42.4
Population growth: 0.35 %/year
GDP per capita: USD 13,969 USD
Human Development Index: 0.865
Major disasters[2]
1944 - San Juan Earthquake
10,000 Deaths
Loss 2.9% GDP
2025 - Bahia Blanca Floods
125 Deaths
Loss 0.06% GDP
2018 - Drought
0 Deaths
Loss 0.67% GDP
Built environment (exposure)[3]
Replacement cost
Replacement cost (USD billions)
Residential
1,057.5
Commercial
160.4
Industrial
78.3
Total
1,296.2
Residential (81.6%)
Commercial (12.4%)
Industrial (6%)
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Historical loss exceedance curves[4]
General statistics
Catalog period:
1970 - 2024
Total reported losses:
$ 87,880M
Average annual losses:
$ 1,657M
Maximum individual loss:
$ 4,945M
Distribution by disaster type
Hydrological (59.6%)
Climatological (30.7%)
Meteorological (7.8%)
Geophysical (1.9%)
Other (0%)
Historical catalog
Historical Economic Loss Exceedance Curve
Hazard layers[5]
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References
1. World Development Indicators (2024). Washington DC. The World Bank. Available at: https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators 2. EM-DAT: The International Disaster Database EM-DAT. (2008) Available at: https://www.emdat.be/ 3. Country/Territory Seismic Risk Profiles of the GEM Foundation (2023), Available at: https://github.com/gem/risk-profiles/ 4. DesInventar Version 9.20.04 - 2020. Available at https://db.desinventar.org