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Guyana

Social indicators[1]

Population: 0.83M

GDP: USD 24.66B

Gini Index: 45.1

Population growth: 0.57 %/year

GDP per capita: USD 29,675 USD

Human Development Index: 0.776

Major disasters[2]

  • 2005 - 2005 Floods

    34 Deaths

    Loss 60% GDP

  • 2021 - 2021 Floods

    0 Deaths

    Loss 2.28% GDP

  • 2024 - 2024 Wildfires

    0 Deaths

    Loss 0.15% GDP

Built environment (exposure)[3]

Replacement cost

Replacement cost (USD billions)

Residential

5.2

Commercial

1

Industrial

0.8

Total

7

Residential (74.3%)

Commercial (14.3%)

Industrial (11.4%)

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Historical loss exceedance curves[4]

General statistics

Catalog period:

1974 - 2013

Total reported losses:

$ 1,499M

Average annual losses:

$ 90M

Maximum individual loss:

$ 747M

Distribution by disaster type

Hydrological (89.2%)

Climatological (10.2%)

Meteorological (0.6%)

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