Dataset · IFHV
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.
World Risk Index · the file
- 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.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Risk Index, 2025Newest | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2024 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2023 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2022 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2021 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2020 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2019 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2018 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2017 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2016 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2015 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2014 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 26 years
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Risk Index, 2013 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2012 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2011 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2010 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2009 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2008 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2007 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2006 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2005 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2004 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2003 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2002 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2001 | 193 | ±0 | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
| World Risk Index, 2000 | 193 | — | September 6, 2026 | CSV |
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
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2025 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 193 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 193 | 0 | |
WorldRiskIndex Score (0–100)risk_scoreHeadline | The headline figure: WorldRiskIndex score (0–100, where 100 is the most at risk). | Number · up to 2 decimals | 0.18 | 176 | 0 | |
ExposureexposurePart of the headline | How exposed the population is to earthquakes, storms, floods, droughts and sea-level rise, scored 0–100. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 0.023 share it64.59 | 146 | 0 | |
VulnerabilityvulnerabilityPart of the headline | Combined susceptibility, lack of coping capacities and lack of adaptive capacities: how badly a society would suffer, scored 0–100. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 1.55 | 187 | 0 | |
SusceptibilitysusceptibilityPart of the headline | Structural and social conditions that make it more likely people will suffer harm from an extreme natural event, scored 0–100. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 1.75 | 188 | 0 | |
Lack of Coping Capacitieslack_of_copingPart of the headline | How little capacity society has to limit damage during and just after a hazard; 0–100, higher is worse. | Number · up to 2 decimals | 0.42 | 185 | 0 | |
Lack of Adaptive Capacitieslack_of_adaptationPart of the headline | How 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 decimals | 5.05 | 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.
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.
| 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 | 54 |
| Americas | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 | 35 |
| Asia | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 |
| Europe | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 | 43 |
| Oceania | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 |
| All | 193 | 193 | 193 | 193 | 193 | 193 | 193 | 193 | 193 | 193 | 193 | 193 |
The newest 12 of 26 years.
The same 193 countries in every year.
Not in this dataset · 32 places this site covers
IFHV 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.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum
2 · Their file
WorldRiskIndex 2025
3 · Read by this site
September 6, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.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.csv5 · 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.
Licence · checked August 29, 2026
- 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.