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The World Risk Poll has created a new index called the Experience of Harm Index, which highlights the countries where citizens have the highest levels of experience of everyday risk.
This index measures harm from seven everyday risks: severe weather, violent crime, food you eat, electrical powerlines, mental health issues, water you drink and household appliances.
The index shows that Liberia tops this index due to experience of harm from severe weather, followed by Zambia and Mozambique both of which experience high levels of harm from the water they drink.
The safest countries are Uzbekistan and Singapore where the greatest source of harm is food, and Turkmenistan where the greatest harm they experience is from household appliances.
View a map of countries shaded according to levels of experience of harm. (Country’s score out of 100)
The Disaster Risk Reduction for Africa (DRR4Africa) project seeks to improve the resilience of three selected African cities to climate-induced disasters by collaboratively identifying the biggest disaster threats, and developing solutions packages tailored to these cities.
Losing access to critical infrastructure services, such as clean water and electricity, is harming confidence in the disaster preparedness of local governments in East Africa, particularly among communities that have experienced disasters.
Mark Harvey discusses Resurgence's plan to integrate World Risk Poll data into their award-winning DARAJA inclusive early warning service to support climate-stressed communities in three cities in the region.
