London

Average annual GDP

$605.02bn

Total GDP@Risk

$53.43bn 8.83% of Average annual GDP

GDP@Risk: Top 5 threats

  • 1
    Market crash $14.08bn
  • 2
    Flood $9.71bn
  • 3
    Oil price shock $8.81bn
  • 4
    Cyber attack $7.89bn
  • 5
    Human pandemic $4.67bn

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London

GDP@Risk: All threats

$53.43bn


$1,000bn
  • 1 Market crash $14.08bn
  • 2 Flood $9.71bn
  • 3 Oil price shock $8.81bn
  • 4 Cyber attack $7.89bn
  • 5 Human pandemic $4.67bn
  • 6 Drought $2.80bn
  • 7 Solar storm $1.18bn
  • 8 Wind storm $1.11bn
  • 9 Power outage $0.93bn
  • 10 Terrorism $0.58bn
  • 11 Freeze $0.54bn
  • 12 Plant epidemic $0.44bn
  • 13 Heatwave $0.27bn
  • 14 Sovereign default $0.27bn
  • 15 Nuclear accident $0.12bn
  • 16 Earthquake $0.00bn
  • - Tsunami $0.00bn
  • - Volcano $0.00bn

London

GDP@Risk: Manmade threats

$32.69bn

61.19% of Total GDP@Risk

London

GDP@Risk: Natural threats

$20.73bn

38.81% of Total GDP@Risk

London

GDP@Risk: Emerging threats

$14.18bn

26.54% of Total GDP@Risk

Minimal (<$0.01bn) or no GDP@Risk:

Solar storm: While the threat itself is not emerging our vulnerability to the risks it poses is.

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Average annual GDP
The annual economic output of a selected location calculated by averaging GDP projections from 2015 to 2025.
Total GDP@Risk
The expected loss to a selected location’s economic output from all 18 threats. Its calculation combines the likelihood of events occurring during the period 2015 to 2025 with the loss of GDP that would result.
% of Average annual GDP
The expected loss to a selected location’s economic output from all 18 threats as a percentage of its Average annual GDP.
City rankings by country
The 50 countries selected highlight the countries with the highest aggregate total GDP@Risk. Each country table lists the GDP@Risk of cities within the 50 selected countries.

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