Social indicators[1]
Population: 10.64M
GDP: USD 34.4B
Gini Index: 48.2
Population growth: 1.17 %/year
GDP per capita: USD 3,231 USD
Human Development Index: 0.621
Major disasters[2]
1974 - Hurricane Fifi
8,120 Deaths
Loss 14.9% GDP
1998 - Hurricane Mitch
11,374 Deaths
Loss 61.7% GDP
2020 - Hurricane Eta Iota
74 Deaths
Loss 4.8% GDP
Built environment (exposure)[3]
Replacement cost
Replacement cost (USD billions)
Residential
137.8
Commercial
21.6
Industrial
14.2
Total
173.6
Residential (79.4%)
Commercial (12.4%)
Industrial (8.2%)
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Historical loss exceedance curves[4]
General statistics
Catalog period:
1974 - 2025
Total reported losses:
$ 10,108M
Average annual losses:
$ 227.1M
Maximum individual loss:
$ 3,835M
Distribution by disaster type
Hydrological (66.8%)
Meteorological (19.2%)
Climatological (12.3%)
Geophysical (1.7%)
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