Social indicators[1]
Population: 28.41M
GDP: USD 119.8B
Gini Index: 44.7
Population growth: 0.37 %/year
GDP per capita: USD 4,218 USD
Human Development Index: 0.709
Major disasters[2]
1967 - Caracas Earthquake
240 Deaths
Loss 1% GDP
1987 - 1987 Mudslide
96 Deaths
Loss 0.12% GDP
1999 - 1999 Floods
30,000 Deaths
Loss 1.83% GDP
Built environment (exposure)[3]
Replacement cost
Replacement cost (USD billions)
Residential
394.4
Commercial
65.3
Industrial
63.6
Total
523.3
Residential (75.4%)
Commercial (12.5%)
Industrial (12.2%)
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Historical loss exceedance curves[4]
General statistics
Catalog period:
1971 - 2016
Total reported losses:
$ 56,222M
Average annual losses:
$ 1,735M
Maximum individual loss:
$ 6,240M
Distribution by disaster type
Climatological (50.4%)
Hydrological (49.2%)
Geophysical (0.2%)
Meteorological (0.2%)
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