Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct)

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: river-flood-risk-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct): what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	164	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	164	0
Riverine flood risk (0–5, higher is worse)river_flood_risk_scoreHeadline	The headline figure: Riverine flood risk score (0–5).	Number · up to 9 decimals	0.00002 share it5.0000Somaliamiddle 2.4031	163	0
WRI rankglobal_rankPublisher’s rank	WRI’s own rank, exactly as printed.	Number · whole numbers	1Somalia1632 share itmiddle 83	163	0
WRI risk categoryrisk_categoryLabel	WRI's band for the score, from Low (up to 2 in 1,000 people affected in an average year) to Extremely High (more than 1 in 100).	Text	—	5	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.

One edition, covering 164 countries.

Not in this dataset · 61 places this site covers

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

American SamoaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaArubaBahamasBarbadosBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsCabo VerdeCayman IslandsChannel IslandsComorosCook IslandsCuraçaoDominicaFaroe IslandsFijiFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGrenadaGuamHong KongIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoMacauMaldivesMaltaMarshall IslandsMauritiusMicronesiaMonacoMontserratNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePuerto RicoSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSão Tomé and PríncipeSeychellesSingaporeSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomalilandTaiwanTongaTrinidad and TobagoTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVanuatuVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Resources Institute (WRI)

   wri.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Aqueduct 4.0 — Riverine Flood Risk

   aqueduct-4-0-country-rankings.zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

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

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: river-flood-risk-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/river-flood-risk

From the World Resources Institute's Aqueduct 4.0 country rankings. WRI cautions that its risk indicators are modelled and cannot be validated by direct measurement. Its projections to 2030, 2050 and 2080 are not used.

• Charted

  Riverine Flood Risk (Aqueduct) by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Risk & Resilience

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