Social indicators[1]
Population: 4.52M
GDP: USD 86.52B
Gini Index: 49.7
Population growth: 1.27 %/year
GDP per capita: USD 19,161 USD
Human Development Index: 0.839
Major disasters[2]
2010 - 2010 Floods
13 Deaths
Loss 0.51% GDP
1991 - Bocas del Toro Earthquake
28 Deaths
Loss 1.5% GDP
2016 - Otto tropical storm
9 Deaths
Loss 0.03% GDP
Built environment (exposure)[3]
Replacement cost
Replacement cost (USD billions)
Residential
92.2
Commercial
18.7
Industrial
14.2
Total
125.1
Residential (73.7%)
Commercial (14.9%)
Industrial (11.4%)
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Historical loss exceedance curves[4]
General statistics
Catalog period:
1988 - 2020
Total reported losses:
$ 2,169M
Average annual losses:
$ 77M
Maximum individual loss:
$ 269M
Distribution by disaster type
Hydrological (53.2%)
Climatological (32.3%)
Meteorological (12.1%)
Geophysical (2.4%)
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