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Safety and Food Security

Category KPI Result Performance to Benchmark SDG

Natural Disaster-
Related Deaths 0.31
(per 100 000
inhabitants)
Disaster-Related
Economic Losses
(relative to City 0.00 %
GDP)

Resilience Plans No

Population Living
in Disaster-Prone 5.73 %
Areas

Emergency Service 13.43 mins
Response Time

Fire Service
(per 100 000 11.13 FTE
inhabitants)
Traffic Fatalities
(per 100 000 10.83
inhabitants)

Police Service
(per 100 000 175.76 FTE
inhabitants)
Violent Crime Rate
(per 100 000 157.68
inhabitants)

Local Food
Production Not Reported

While Riyadh reported few natural disaster-related deaths and had no natural disaster-related economic
losses, it considers almost 6 per cent of its inhabitants as living in a zone subject to natural hazards. It
is recommended that the city invests accordingly in the development and implementation of risk and
vulnerability assessments for potential disaster mitigation that are in line with the Sendai Framework

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