Social indicators[1]
Population: 18.41M
GDP: USD 113.2B
Gini Index: 45.2
Population growth: 1.54 %/year
GDP per capita: USD 6,150 USD
Human Development Index: 0.662
Major disasters[2]
1976 - 1976 Earthquake
23,000 Deaths
Loss 25.3% GDP
1998 - Mitch Hurricane
384 Deaths
Loss 3.9% GDP
2005 - Stan Tropical Storm
1,513 Deaths
Loss 3.61% GDP
Built environment (exposure)[3]
Replacement cost
Replacement cost (USD billions)
Residential
187.4
Commercial
24.7
Industrial
18.6
Total
230.7
Residential (81.2%)
Commercial (10.7%)
Industrial (8.1%)
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Historical loss exceedance curves[4]
General statistics
Catalog period:
1988 - 2022
Total reported losses:
$ 9,073M
Average annual losses:
$ 346M
Maximum individual loss:
$ 1,654M
Distribution by disaster type
Meteorological (55.6%)
Hydrological (33.7%)
Geophysical (6.3%)
Climatological (4.4%)
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