Flood exposure of poor populations

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Data requirement: Global data for floods, WB data for poverty estimates

Final deliverables: Summary note with key messages, relevant figures, and recommendation typology, as well as detailed annexes with processed data.

Geographic scope: National, sub-national

Hazards covered: Floods

Indicative Cost / working time: $5k ~1 week

Methodology peer-reviewed, cleared (date)?: Yes - methodology was reviewed and published in the journal Nature Communications in June 2022

Time Required for delivery: 1-3 weeks (depending on other commitments)

Estimates of the number of people exposed to floods in 2020 at the 90x90 meter grid cell level, and the share of extreme poor and poor at the Admin 0 and Admin 1 level, per country income group and geography. Based on high-resolution global flood and population density data.

Additional Resources

Paper

A high-resolution global exposure assessment for 188 countries.

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Blog

Alarming insights into the scale of people’s exposure and their vulnerabilities. to flood hazards.

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Paper

Modeling the impact of 2022 Pakistan floods on households.

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