VANUATU

WORLDS
MOST “AT-
RISK”
COUNTRY FOR
NATURAL
HAZARD

-UN UNIVERISTY WORLD RISK INDEX

 2014 RANKING

• VANUATA 36.5 1st

• Philippines 28.3% 2nd
• Tonga 28.2% 3rd
• Guatemala 21% 4th
• Japan 13% 17th
• Germany 3% 147th
• Qatar .08%
90,000/per at risk 30,000/per at risk

250,000 people
 “Vanuatu is
64 % UNIQUE”
-Professor Jorn
Exposed in
Brikmann
Natural
(head of World Risk
Hazard/year
Index)
 coping
“Will relief efforts actually get to the
people who need them?

81 %
Lacks of
capabilities
 GOVERNMENT

 CORRUPTION
 POOR
GOVERNANCE
 For search and rescue
operation/Relief

65 INHABITED ISLAND
 SUSCEPTIBILITY
10 % extreme
poverty
8%
undernourised
SANITATION
57 % Vanuatu’s Citizens are enjoying
access to sanitation and sufficient sewage
disposal (Severe deficits and challenges)

98%, 97%;
74% PH
 A D A P TA B I L I T Y REDCROSS

Va n u a t u - 5 0 y e a r s
recovery
Other country
-few months

FACTORS:
Adult Literacy Rate, School Enrollment, Gender
Equality, Investments, Public Health Expenditure, life
Expectancy & etc.
“Politician often fail to address –or
intentionally avoid social and
governmental failings when addressing
disaster prevention and Relief.”
“The chances they will go through this
again are HIGH.”
–Professor Birkmann
 VANUATU (OVER ALL WORLD RISK
INDEX)

Total no. of people exposed to

natural hazard x overall
“Vulnerability” = lack of
capabilities and a lack of
adaptive capacities
36.5 %
“ Japan in Highly exposed, with the number of people
to EARTHQUAKES, but disaster risk is lower due to a
HIGHER LEVEL of preparedness with regard to
building codes and infrastracture there” –Brikmann

“THE QUESTION OF WHETHER AN EXTREME

IMPACT IS A CATASTROPHE HEAVILY DEPENDS
ON THE VULNERABILITY.”