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Uruguay

Social indicators[1]

Population: 3.39M

GDP: USD 80.96B

Gini Index: 34.9

Population growth: -0.08 %/year

GDP per capita: USD 23,906 USD

Human Development Index: 0.862

Major disasters[2]

  • 2007 - Floods

    2 Deaths

    Loss 0.19% GDP

  • 2016 - Floods

    8 Deaths

    Loss 0.01% GDP

  • 2018 - Drought

    0 Deaths

    Loss 0.77% GDP

Built environment (exposure)[3]

Replacement cost

Replacement cost (USD billions)

Residential

63.6

Commercial

11

Industrial

9.6

Total

84.2

Residential (75.5%)

Commercial (13.1%)

Industrial (11.4%)

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Historical loss exceedance curves[4]

General statistics

Catalog period:

1983 - 2023

Total reported losses:

$ 4,738M

Average annual losses:

$ 128M

Maximum individual loss:

$ 1,170M

Distribution by disaster type

Climatological (77.5%)

Hydrological (22.1%)

Meteorological (0.4%)

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