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World Risk Index

26 years, 2000–2025 · 193 countries · 6 measures

The WorldRiskIndex scores how exposed a country is to natural hazards and how vulnerable it is when one arrives, out of 100, where a higher number is worse. Compiled at Ruhr University Bochum, it covers all 193 UN member states with no gaps anywhere.

This site holds every year from 2000 to 2025, read from IFHV’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Newest
World Risk Index, 2025
Held
26 years · 5,018 rows
Licence
CC BY 4.0

0126 years

Every year

Every year comes from IFHV’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.

2000bar height: countries covered, up to 1932025
Every year of World Risk Index held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
World Risk Index, 2025Newest193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2024193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2023193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2022193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2021193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2020193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2019193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2018193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2017193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2016193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2015193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2014193±0September 6, 2026CSV
Show all 26 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
World Risk Index, 2013193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2012193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2011193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2010193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2009193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2008193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2007193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2006193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2005193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2004193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2003193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2002193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2001193±0September 6, 2026CSV
World Risk Index, 2000193—September 6, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: world-risk-index-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

028 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

WorldRiskIndex Score (0–100)is built fromExposureVulnerabilitySusceptibilityLack of Coping CapacitiesLack of Adaptive Capacities

Every column in the newest file of World Risk Index: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2025DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1930
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1930
WorldRiskIndex Score (0–100)risk_scoreHeadlineThe headline figure: WorldRiskIndex score (0–100, where 100 is the most at risk).Number · up to 2 decimals0.18Monaco46.56Philippinesmiddle 4.171760
ExposureexposurePart of the headlineHow exposed the population is to earthquakes, storms, floods, droughts and sea-level rise, scored 0–100.Number · up to 2 decimals0.023 share it64.59Chinamiddle 1.051460
VulnerabilityvulnerabilityPart of the headlineCombined susceptibility, lack of coping capacities and lack of adaptive capacities: how badly a society would suffer, scored 0–100.Number · up to 2 decimals1.55Monaco72.71Central African Republicmiddle 18.351870
SusceptibilitysusceptibilityPart of the headlineStructural and social conditions that make it more likely people will suffer harm from an extreme natural event, scored 0–100.Number · up to 2 decimals1.75Monaco74.55Central African Republicmiddle 15.591880
Lack of Coping Capacitieslack_of_copingPart of the headlineHow little capacity society has to limit damage during and just after a hazard; 0–100, higher is worse.Number · up to 2 decimals0.42Monaco81.04Somaliamiddle 11.571850
Lack of Adaptive Capacitieslack_of_adaptationPart of the headlineHow little long-term capacity there is to adapt, through education, reducing disparities, investment and disaster preparedness; 0–100, higher is worse.Number · up to 2 decimals5.05Monaco77.83Central African Republicmiddle 45.281900

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.

03193 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of World Risk Index, by continent.
201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Africa545454545454545454545454
Americas353535353535353535353535
Asia474747474747474747474747
Europe434343434343434343434343
Oceania141414141414141414141414
All193193193193193193193193193193193193

The newest 12 of 26 years.

The same 193 countries in every year.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum

  2. 2 · Their file

    WorldRiskIndex 2025

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 6, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    26 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as world-risk-index-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/world-risk-indexA key for Risk & Resilience in the Country Index.

Precision

The headline is stored to 2 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Imported from IFHV’s trend file on the Humanitarian Data Exchange. The WorldRiskReport does print a ranking, but only inside its PDF — every machine-readable file the institute publishes carries scores and no rank column.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked August 29, 2026

CC BY 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed

Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

A credit line

Source: Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum, World Risk Index, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum. World Risk Index, 2000–2025 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/world-risk-index

The publisher’s own citation: Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft and IFHV, Ruhr University Bochum. WorldRiskReport. Berlin and Bochum.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

World Risk Index: questions and answers

What is the World Risk Index?

The WorldRiskIndex scores how exposed a country is to natural hazards and how vulnerable it is when one arrives, out of 100, where a higher number is worse. Compiled at Ruhr University Bochum, it covers all 193 UN member states with no gaps anywhere.

Which years of the World Risk Index can I download?

All 26, from 2000 to 2025, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does IFHV rank countries on it?

No. IFHV publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to IFHV. The licence text is linked on this page.

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