Washington, DC

Average annual GDP

$346.54bn

Total GDP@Risk

$26.60bn 7.68% of Average annual GDP

GDP@Risk: Top 5 threats

  • 1
    Market crash $8.05bn
  • 2
    Oil price shock $5.05bn
  • 3
    Cyber attack $4.51bn
  • 4
    Human pandemic $2.67bn
  • 5
    Flood $1.17bn

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Washington, DC

GDP@Risk: All threats

$26.60bn


$1,000bn
  • 1 Market crash $8.05bn
  • 2 Oil price shock $5.05bn
  • 3 Cyber attack $4.51bn
  • 4 Human pandemic $2.67bn
  • 5 Flood $1.17bn
  • 6 Wind storm $0.95bn
  • 7 Freeze $0.75bn
  • 8 Drought $0.68bn
  • 9 Solar storm $0.68bn
  • 10 Power outage $0.53bn
  • 11 Nuclear accident $0.46bn
  • 12 Heatwave $0.38bn
  • 13 Plant epidemic $0.35bn
  • 14 Terrorism $0.19bn
  • 15 Sovereign default $0.18bn
  • 16 Earthquake $0.00bn
  • - Tsunami $0.00bn
  • - Volcano $0.00bn

Washington, DC

GDP@Risk: Manmade threats

$18.97bn

71.30% of Total GDP@Risk

Washington, DC

GDP@Risk: Natural threats

$7.64bn

28.70% of Total GDP@Risk

Washington, DC

GDP@Risk: Emerging threats

$8.21bn

30.86% 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
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