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Paraguay

Social indicators[1]

Population: 6.93M

GDP: USD 44.46B

Gini Index: 44.2

Population growth: 1.23 %/year

GDP per capita: USD 6,416 USD

Human Development Index: 0.756

Major disasters[2]

  • 1982 - 1982-1983 Floods

    76 Deaths

    Loss 17.2% GDP

  • 2021 - 2021-2022 Drought

    0 Deaths

    Loss 5.99% GDP

  • 2019 - 2019 wildfires

    0 Deaths

    Loss 0.23% GDP

Built environment (exposure)[3]

Replacement cost

Replacement cost (USD billions)

Residential

60.3

Commercial

9.4

Industrial

9

Total

78.7

Residential (76.6%)

Commercial (11.9%)

Industrial (11.4%)

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Historical loss exceedance curves[4]

General statistics

Catalog period:

1983 - 2025

Total reported losses:

$ 5,339M

Average annual losses:

$ 140M

Maximum individual loss:

$ 998M

Distribution by disaster type

Climatological (85.1%)

Hydrological (14.2%)

Meteorological (0.7%)

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