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Dimension Society and Culture
Sub-Dimension Safety, Housing and Social Inclusion

Category Safety
KPI Name Population Living in Disaster Prone Areas
KPI No. SC: SH: SA: 4A Type: Advanced Type: Sustainable

Definition / Percentage of inhabitants living in a zone subject to natural hazards
Description

Rationale / “This indicator refers to the percentage of national population living in areas
Interpretation/ subject to significant risk of death or damage caused by prominent hazards:
Benchmarking cyclones, drought, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides. The indicator
can be calculated separately for each relevant prominent hazard. The risk of death
in a natural disaster is a function of physical exposure to a hazardous event and
vulnerability to the hazard. The indicator measures the risk at sub-national scale by
using historical and other data on hazards and on vulnerability. The sub-national
risk levels are then aggregated to arrive at national values.” (United Nations)
“To calculate the percentage of population living in disaster prone areas, thus
providing a useful estimate of national vulnerability to cyclones, drought, floods,
earthquake, volcanoes and landslides, which combines almost the totality of human
and economic loss due to disasters caused by vulnerability to natural hazards. This
indicator will contribute to a better understanding of the level of vulnerability in a
given country, thus encouraging long-term, sustainable risk reduction programmes
to prevent disasters, which are a major threat to national development”. (UNDESA)
A declining trend and lower values are considered positive.
Source(s) NOTE – UNDESA. Retrieved from

<http:// www .un .org/ esa/ sustdev/ natlinfo/ indicators/ methodology _sheets/ natural
_hazards/ population _hazard _proneareas .pdf>

Methodology Calculate as:
Numerator: Total number of city inhabitants living in areas subject to significant risk
of death or damage caused by prominent hazards
Denominator: Total number of city inhabitants.

Multiply by 100.
Unit Percentage

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