Social indicators[1]
Population: 11.43M
GDP: USD 124.28B
Gini Index: 39.0
Population growth: 0.85 %/year
GDP per capita: USD 10,876 USD
Human Development Index: 0.776
Major disasters[2]
1930 - San Zenón Hurricane
2,000 Deaths
Loss 26.67% GDP
1946 - 1946 Earthquake and tsunami
73 Deaths
Loss 0.62% GDP
2007 - Noel tropical storm
129 Deaths
Loss 1% GDP
Built environment (exposure)[3]
Replacement cost
Replacement cost (USD billions)
Residential
225.8
Commercial
36.9
Industrial
27.2
Total
289.9
Residential (77.9%)
Commercial (12.7%)
Industrial (9.4%)
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Historical loss exceedance curves[4]
General statistics
Catalog period:
1966 - 2023
Total reported losses:
$ 7,452M
Average annual losses:
$ 239M
Maximum individual loss:
$ 3,813M
Distribution by disaster type
Meteorological (81.9%)
Climatological (11.6%)
Hydrological (6.5%)
Geophysical (0%)
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