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Firms damaged by extreme weather by country
What share of firms had their assets damaged by storms, floods or droughts?
Of the 163 countries compared in the 2026 edition, Qatar had the lowest reading, 0.0000%, and Vanuatu had the highest reading, 59.2150%. In the middle country the figure was 9.4853%.
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Firms damaged by extreme weather · the 2026 edition
Context statistic
Lowest of 163Qatar
0.0000%01the 2026 edition · position · derived
Who leads
The three countries at the lowest end of 163 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
1Photo: Haakon S. Krohn derivative work: JamesA · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
2Photo: Christophe Guilloux derivative work: Inkey · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
3Photo: Jack Versloot · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
Highest in the 2026 edition
Vanuatu59.2150%
South Sudan53.7143%
Grenada38.4636%
Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.
02Every measured country
Firms damaged by extreme weather on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a lower value — the better end.
- 16.9740–59.2150%
- 11.3200–16.8505%
- 7.4599–11.2449%
- 3.2333–7.4134%
- 0.0000–3.2121%
- No reading in the 2026 edition
- Asia
4.6456%
the middle country, of 43 measured · 52 members
Qatar0.0000%
Maldives23.0003%Lowest and highest reading in Asia.
- Europe
9.1853%
the middle country, of 36 measured · 49 members
Albania1.0806%
Slovenia20.5752%Lowest and highest reading in Europe.
- Africa
10.2073%
the middle country, of 49 measured · 55 members
Morocco0.0576%South Sudan53.7143%Lowest and highest reading in Africa.
- Americas
13.7456%
the middle country, of 26 measured · 48 members
Mexico0.1461%Grenada38.4636%Lowest and highest reading in Americas.
- Oceania
22.4621%
the middle country, of 9 measured · 21 members
Samoa8.4909%Vanuatu59.2150%Lowest and highest reading in Oceania.
- Every region
22 sub-regions, lowest middle country first
- Central Asia
1.6804%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
Turkmenistan0.3101%
Kyrgyzstan8.6635%Lowest and highest reading in Central Asia.
- Southern Asia
3.4846%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 9 members
India0.1795%Maldives23.0003%Lowest and highest reading in Southern Asia.
- Western Asia
4.7410%
the middle country, of 14 measured · 19 members
Qatar0.0000%
Bahrain21.3698%Lowest and highest reading in Western Asia.
- South-eastern Asia
5.0064%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 11 members
Singapore0.3173%
Philippines18.4953%Lowest and highest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Eastern Asia
5.4610%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 8 members
South Korea1.8272%
Taiwan17.7852%Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Western Africa
7.5713%
the middle country, of 16 measured · 16 members
Senegal1.9675%
Sierra Leone19.7987%Lowest and highest reading in Western Africa.
- Eastern Europe
7.6931%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 10 members
Poland1.2673%
Moldova13.5980%Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Southern Europe
7.7493%
the middle country, of 13 measured · 17 members
Albania1.0806%Slovenia20.5752%Lowest and highest reading in Southern Europe.
- Northern Europe
9.4436%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 13 members
Sweden4.5195%
Ireland13.0503%Lowest and highest reading in Northern Europe.
- Eastern Africa
10.2073%
the middle country, of 17 measured · 19 members
Zimbabwe0.3098%South Sudan53.7143%Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Western Europe
11.2590%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 9 members
Netherlands5.6002%
Austria17.3601%Lowest and highest reading in Western Europe.
- Middle Africa
11.5999%
the middle country, of 9 measured · 9 members
Equatorial Guinea2.6292%
São Tomé and Príncipe28.2091%Lowest and highest reading in Middle Africa.
- South America
14.0515%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 12 members
Peru4.7840%
Suriname18.9235%Lowest and highest reading in South America.
- Caribbean
14.6332%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 24 members
Barbados3.0029%Grenada38.4636%Lowest and highest reading in Caribbean.
- Central America
14.9736%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 8 members
Mexico0.1461%
Costa Rica19.8218%Lowest and highest reading in Central America.
- Australia and New Zealand
2 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.
New Zealand19.4692%
Australia22.4621%Lowest and highest reading in Australia and New Zealand.
- Melanesia
4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.
Papua New Guinea14.5332%Vanuatu59.2150%Lowest and highest reading in Melanesia.
- Micronesia
1 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Kiribati.
Kiribati25.4905%Lowest and highest reading in Micronesia.
- Northern Africa
3 of 6 measured — too few for a middle: Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia.
Morocco0.0576%
Tunisia3.1482%Lowest and highest reading in Northern Africa.
- Northern America
2 of 4 measured — too few for a middle: Canada, United States.
Canada4.4191%
United States7.4134%Lowest and highest reading in Northern America.
- Polynesia
2 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Samoa, Tonga.
Samoa8.4909%
Tonga12.5540%Lowest and highest reading in Polynesia.
- Southern Africa
4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia.
Botswana10.9434%
Namibia22.4403%Lowest and highest reading in Southern Africa.
03The whole field at once
The spread
163 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 9.4853%; a quarter are above 14.5530%, and a quarter below 4.4427%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 163 ever measured
Every country
In order, highest value first — position 1 is the highest value, the way World Bank Group’s own tables read. “=” marks a position shared with another country. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. The figure records whether a damaging season happened to come before the survey, not how exposed a country is to hazards: a country hit by a cyclone the year before its survey reads high, and an equally exposed one surveyed after a calm year reads low. Survey years differ between countries — check the year beside each reading.
Showing 25 of 163 countries
Values for the 2026 edition.
05In this edition
Firms damaged by extreme weather in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading
59.2150%
Firms whose physical assets were damaged by extreme weather (%)
Lowest reading
0.0000%
Firms whose physical assets were damaged by extreme weather (%)
06The measure
About firms damaged by extreme weather
This is the share of private firms whose buildings, equipment or stock were damaged by extreme weather — storms, floods, droughts or landslides — as reported in the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys. It is business's own record of what severe weather has cost it.
What the number is: Firms whose physical assets were damaged by extreme weather (%).
07Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Risk & Resilience, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Moves with
Where firms damaged by extreme weather is higher, these tend to be higher too.
- Firms Experiencing Internet DisruptionsWorld Bank Group · 163 countries in commonρ 0.52
- Firms with Female Participation in OwnershipWorld Bank Group · 163 countries in commonρ 0.44
- Firms Offering Formal TrainingWorld Bank Group · 163 countries in commonρ 0.41
Moves against
Where firms damaged by extreme weather is higher, these tend to be lower.
No statistic lines up this closely.
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 374 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
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09Questions
Firms damaged by extreme weather: questions and answers
Which country has the lowest firms damaged by extreme weather?
Qatar, at 0.0000%, among the 163 countries compared in the 2026 edition.
Which country has the highest firms damaged by extreme weather?
Vanuatu, at 59.2150%, among the 163 countries compared in the 2026 edition.
How many countries does the Firms Whose Assets Were Damaged by Extreme Weather cover?
163 in the 2026 edition.
What is the world average firms damaged by extreme weather?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 163 compared in the 2026 edition, the figure was 9.4853%.
Is this World Bank Group’s own ranking?
No. World Bank Group publishes the values but ranks nobody; the position on this page is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values, and equal values share a position.
How often is the Firms Whose Assets Were Damaged by Extreme Weather published?
This site holds one edition, describing 2026.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From World Bank Group, under CC BY 4.0. World Bank Enterprise Surveys on Data360, read from the full-precision bulk file, one reading per country from its most recent survey. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
10Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Firms Whose Assets Were Damaged by Extreme Weather — World Bank Group
World Bank Enterprise Surveys on Data360, read from the full-precision bulk file, one reading per country from its most recent survey.
Newest edition
Report year 2026Data year not recorded
Cite the source as: World Bank. Enterprise Surveys. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Licence: CC BY 4.0, checked 2026-10-03.
How this page reads the numbers
- World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure. The position is derived by Nations Inquiry by ordering the published values; equal values share a position.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- The file gives each country’s most recent reading, so the rows are from different years. Readings from before 2016 are listed but left out of every comparison on this page.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Photographs
The countries at the top of this statistic, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Qatar — Haakon S. Krohn derivative work: JamesA, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Morocco — Christophe Guilloux derivative work: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Kuwait — Jack Versloot, CC BY 2.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Firms damaged by extreme weather by country: Firms Whose Assets Were Damaged by Extreme Weather, data from World Bank Group. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/firms-weather-damage