Method

Global Exposure to Natural HazardsGlobal open data for monitoring the Sendai targets

The most complete, consistent, global, free and open dataset

on human settlements – from the village to the megacity

The Global Human Settlements Layer (GHSL)

GHSL for Disaster Risk Reduction

Hazard map

Exposure

1975

1990

2000

2015

Population

Built-upsurface

For further information and to explore the GHSL:http://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu

GHSL is one the core datasets for the GEO Human Planet Initiative

Earthquake

Tsunami

Tropical Cyclone Wind

Volcano

Flood

Cyclone Storm Surge

Repeated for 6 hazards

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100km

37%of the world population

6% of the world population

1975 1990 2000 2015

7

6

5

4

3

2

1

0

Billion

8

2.67

1.41

3.42

1.91

3.92

2.24

4.67

2.72

1975

227

303349

414

1990 2000 2015

350

300

250

200

150

100

50

0

Million

400

450Not exposed

Exposed

1 billion people exposed on the planet

50 million people exposed to this hazard

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per exposed population

The built-up surface potentially exposed to tsunami in Japan is 2 times the sum of built-up in the other 9 most exposed countries

Key messages from the Atlas of the Human Planet 2017

EARTHQUAKE

TSUNAMI

TROPICAL CYCLONE WIND

VOLCANO

Population potentially exposed to earthquakes on the planet increased from 1.4 to 2.7 billion between 1975 and 2015

China and Japan are by far the countries with the largest built-up surface exposed to strong cyclone winds (>178 km/h)

In 2015, 414 million people lived near one of the 220 most dangerous volcanoes and could be affected by the consequences of eruptions

FLOOD

CYCLONE STORM SURGE

Flood, the most frequent natural hazard, potentially affects people in Asia and Africa more than in other regions

Population exposed to sea level surge due to cyclones in China approximates the sum of the exposed population of India + Japan + the Philippines

Europe5.6%

Latin America & the Caribbean

3.8 %

Northern America 1.4%

Oceania0.1%Africa12.2 %

Asia76.8%

4085

773

481

430

90

65

62

50

46

43

28.35

26.50

4.45

3.42

2.86

2.46

2.40

1.10

0.70

0.61

China

United States

Indonesia

Peru

Chile

India

Italy

Taiwan

Greece

Japan

Japan

Mexico

United States

South Korea

Philippines

Taiwan

Puerto Rico

Cuba

Dominican Republic

China

5000 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500

50 10 15 20 25 30

Built-up surface in Thousands of km2

Built-up surface in Thousands of sqKm

China JapanIndia the Philippines