Social indicators[1]
Population: 34.22M
GDP: USD 289.22B
Gini Index: 40.1
Population growth: 1.09 %/year
GDP per capita: USD 8,452 USD
Human Development Index: 0.794
Major disasters[2]
1970 - Áncash Earthquake
66,794 Deaths
Loss 7.05% GDP
2007 - Pisco Earthquake
596 Deaths
Loss 1.17% GDP
2001 - 2001 Earthquake
145 Deaths
Loss 0.58% GDP
Built environment (exposure)[3]
Replacement cost
Replacement cost (USD billions)
Residential
631.9
Commercial
86.9
Industrial
44.4
Total
763.2
Residential (82.8%)
Commercial (11.4%)
Industrial (5.8%)
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Historical loss exceedance curves[4]
General statistics
Catalog period:
2001 - 2024
Total reported losses:
$ 42,333M
Average annual losses:
$ 2,063M
Maximum individual loss:
$ 2,488M
Distribution by disaster type
Climatological (48.1%)
Hydrological (39.6%)
Geophysical (8.3%)
Meteorological (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