All cities

Average annual GDP

$37.26trn

Total GDP@Risk

$4.56trn 12.24% of Average annual GDP

GDP@Risk: Top 5 threats

  • 1
    Market crash $1,048.41bn
  • 2
    Human pandemic $591.81bn
  • 3
    Wind storm $586.54bn
  • 4
    Earthquake $464.75bn
  • 5
    Flood $432.01bn

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GDP@Risk: All threats

$4.56trn


$1,000bn
  • 1 Market crash $1,048.41bn
  • 2 Human pandemic $591.81bn
  • 3 Wind storm $586.54bn
  • 4 Earthquake $464.75bn
  • 5 Flood $432.01bn
  • 6 Oil price shock $414.14bn
  • 7 Cyber attack $294.15bn
  • 8 Sovereign default $179.96bn
  • 9 Terrorism $98.20bn
  • 10 Drought $89.39bn
  • 11 Power outage $80.20bn
  • 12 Volcano $79.16bn
  • 13 Plant epidemic $74.64bn
  • 14 Solar storm $64.95bn
  • 15 Freeze $26.30bn
  • 16 Heatwave $15.01bn
  • 17 Nuclear accident $11.19bn
  • 18 Tsunami $9.06bn

All cities

GDP@Risk: Manmade threats

$2.13trn

46.63% of Total GDP@Risk

All cities

GDP@Risk: Natural threats

$2.43trn

53.37% of Total GDP@Risk

All cities

GDP@Risk: Emerging threats

$1.03trn

22.49% 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.

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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