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Bolivia

Social indicators[1]

Population: 12.41M

GDP: USD 54.88B

Gini Index: 42.4

Population growth: 1.37 %/year

GDP per capita: USD 4,421 USD

Human Development Index: 0.733

Major disasters[2]

  • 1983 - Santa Cruz Floods

    250 Deaths

    Loss 0.75% GDP

  • 1992 - Illipi Mudslide

    49 Deaths

    Loss 0.03% GDP

  • 2007 - 2007 Floods

    75 Deaths

    Loss 3.38% GDP

Built environment (exposure)[3]

Replacement cost

Replacement cost (USD billions)

Residential

137.4

Commercial

24.1

Industrial

2.7

Total

164.2

Residential (83.7%)

Commercial (14.7%)

Industrial (1.6%)

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Historical loss exceedance curves[4]

General statistics

Catalog period:

1972 - 2016

Total reported losses:

$ 9,228M

Average annual losses:

$ 242M

Maximum individual loss:

$ 1,440M

Distribution by disaster type

Hydrological (64.1%)

Climatological (35.1%)

Geophysical (0.5%)

Meteorological (0.3%)

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