Country risk and governance profiles

Uncover the trends of disaster risk and learn more about country-level capacities to prevent disasters.

Understanding disaster risk is crucial for effectively preventing disasters. This page provides comprehensive and up-to-date risk profiles for countries around the world. The profiles offer in-depth information on risk for each country; they help identify and prioritize risk, guiding risk management.

Access detailed reports on each country's vulnerability, exposure, and resilience to various disasters, explore informative maps that visualize disaster risks, and understand key indicators and metrics used to assess disaster risk.

Documents and publications

1 March 2024

Zimbabwe country climate and development report

This Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) identifies a path forward for Zimbabwe by linking demand from global green value chains to significant reserves of energy transition minerals (ETMs).

Policies and plans

8 February 2024

Kosovo: Law on climate change

This law determines Kosovo's mitigation and adaptation measures to climate change in line with binding international agreements, and its commitments to sustainable development and the transition to a carbon-neutral economy.

Documents and publications

8 February 2024

2023 Achievements of the climate resilience project in Timor-Leste

The main objective of the project is to safeguard vulnerable communities and their physical assets from climate-induced disasters mainly floods, landslides, erosion, and droughts.

7 February 2024

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Country Climate and Development Report

According to the World Bank’s CCDR, the country must build stronger and more resilient institutions, address increased conflict and fragility situations, and invest substantially to achieve its ambitious climate goals.

Documents and publications

15 January 2024

Diagnostic sur la gestion des risques climatiques et de catastrophe en Algérie: Diagnostic sur la gestion des risques climatiques et de catastrophe en Algérie

Ce document vise principalement à fournir un état des lieux sur la GRC en Algérie et identifie un certain nombre de domaines d’actions prioritaires en vue de renforcer la résilience en Algérie.

Documents and publications

15 December 2023

Australia's Riskscape

This report is a companion piece to the Major Incidents Report 2022–23, drawing upon some of these findings.

Documents and publications

15 December 2023

Local and regional climate trends and variabilities in Ethiopia: Implications for climate change adaptations

This study analyzed trends and variabilities of climate (rainfall, maximum temperature (Tmax), and minimum temperature (Tmin)) at local and regional scales in Ethiopia.

Documents and publications

11 December 2023

Tunisia country climate and development report

This Climate Change and Development Report (CCDR) establishes the case for a new economic model to address Tunisia’s challenging economic and social context and vulnerability to climate change.