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Weather Disasters as Proportion of Global GDP: 1990-2017
« on: January 05, 2018, 04:43:00 pm »
Weather Disasters as Proportion of Global GDP: 1990-2017
January 5, 2018


By Paul Homewood

 

A reminder from Roger Pielke Jr that weather disasters as a proportion of GDP continues to trend downwards, despite the spike in 2017, largely as a consequence of Hurricane Harvey.



The figure above shows the annual costs of weather disasters (data from Munich Re) as a proportion of global GDP (data from the UN), from 1990 to 2017.

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2018/01/05/weather-disasters-as-proportion-of-global-gdp-1990-2017/
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