Bangladesh is among the top five most natural disaster-prone countries in the world according to the World Risk Report 2012 released recently. Vanuatu, Tonga, Philippines and Guatemala are the four top disaster-prone countries followed by Bangladesh. The report analyzed 173 countries before coming to the conclusion.
The report says Bangladesh has 63.78% vulnerability, 43.47% susceptibility, 86.84% lack of coping capacity and 61.03% lack of adaptive capacities with 31.70% exposure to risk. The World Risk Report examines who is at risk from natural disasters, what contributes to this risk and what can be done about it. The balance sheet for the 10 years from 2002 to 2011 is alarming with 4,130 disasters, over one million dead and economic losses of at least US $ 1.195 trillion.
