Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN)

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: climate-vulnerability-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN): what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
Global Rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rank	ND-GAIN’s own rank, exactly as printed.	Number · whole numbers	1Norway190Mauritaniamiddle 95	131	0
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	190	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	190	0
Vulnerability (0–1)vulnerabilityHeadline	The headline figure: ND-GAIN Vulnerability (0–1, where 1 is the most vulnerable).	Number · up to 15 decimals	0.26348Norway0.65513Mauritaniamiddle 0.44965	190	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

The newest 12 of 30 years.

The same 190 countries in every year.

Not in this dataset · 35 places this site covers

ND-GAIN gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAnguillaArubaBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCayman IslandsChannel IslandsCook IslandsCuraçaoFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamHong KongIsle of ManKosovoLiechtensteinMacauMontserratNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalestinePuerto RicoSaint MartinSan MarinoSint MaartenSomalilandSouth SudanTaiwanTurks and Caicos IslandsUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame

   gain.nd.edu

2. 2 · Their file

   Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN) 2024

   resources-2026-14-07-13h00.zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 26, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   30 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as climate-vulnerability-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/climate-vulnerabilityA key for Risk & Resilience in the Country Index.

Imported from ND-GAIN’s own download, the vulnerability file only. The six sector scores and the underlying indicators are not republished; the latter are other agencies’ data. The ranks are those ND-GAIN prints on its own ranking page.