Adoption and implementation of policies to reduce disaster risk by country

Score of adoption and implementation of national DRR strategies in line with the Sendai Framework.

Countries reporting
79
Highest
1 index
Armenia
Lowest
0.05 index
Jamaica
Median
0.8 index
Years covered
21
2005–2025
Data points
680

What the numbers show

Adoption and implementation of policies to reduce disaster risk is currently reported for 79 countries. The highest value is 1 index in Armenia; the lowest is 0.05 index in Jamaica.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.8 index, and the mean is 0.7358 index.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 20.

Over the past decade 49 countries rose and 13 fell. The largest increase was in Barbados (up 1,900.0%), and the largest decrease in Jamaica (down 91.2%).

Adoption and implementation of policies to reduce disaster risk: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Armenia 1 index 2024 unchanged rising
1 Tajikistan 1 index 2020 up 400.0% volatile
1 Qatar 1 index 2024 unchanged flat
1 Philippines 1 index 2024 up 122.2% rising
1 Peru 1 index 2023 up 33.3% rising
1 Malaysia 1 index 2025 up 566.7% volatile
1 Mongolia 1 index 2021 rising
1 Montenegro 1 index 2024 up 29.9% rising
1 South Korea 1 index 2023 up 5.3% rising
1 Japan 1 index 2024 unchanged flat
1 United Kingdom 1 index 2021 unchanged flat
1 Ethiopia 1 index 2019 up 566.7% volatile
1 Algeria 1 index 2023 volatile
1 Germany 1 index 2025 up 75.4% rising
1 Costa Rica 1 index 2024 up 22.0% rising
1 Colombia 1 index 2024 up 66.7% rising
1 Canada 1 index 2025 up 400.0% rising
1 Barbados 1 index 2024 up 1,900.0% rising
19 Indonesia 0.98 index 2024 up 19.5% rising
19 Georgia 0.98 index 2024 unchanged rising
19 Norway 0.98 index 2019 up 3.2% flat
19 Myanmar 0.98 index 2023 up 476.5% volatile
19 Mauritius 0.98 index 2024 up 1,860.0% rising
19 Fiji 0.98 index 2022 volatile
25 Bangladesh 0.95 index 2022 up 8.0% rising
25 Estonia 0.95 index 2024 up 2.2% rising
27 Belarus 0.93 index 2024 up 830.0% rising
27 Portugal 0.93 index 2023 up 165.7% rising
27 Kiribati 0.93 index 2021 up 272.0% rising
27 Kyrgyzstan 0.93 index 2024 up 78.8% rising
27 Russia 0.93 index 2024 up 32.9% rising
32 Chile 0.9 index 2024 up 80.0% rising
32 New Zealand 0.9 index 2023 up 2.3% flat
32 Jordan 0.9 index 2023 volatile
35 Poland 0.88 index 2023 up 10.0% rising
36 Kazakhstan 0.85 index 2024 down 3.4% flat
36 Namibia 0.85 index 2024 up 240.0% rising
38 Czechia 0.82 index 2024 down 6.8% falling
38 Egypt 0.82 index 2024 up 36.7% rising
40 Thailand 0.8 index 2024 up 33.3% rising
40 Pakistan 0.8 index 2020 up 86.0% rising
40 United States 0.8 index 2021 down 11.1% falling
43 Morocco 0.77 index 2024 up 1,440.0% rising
43 Marshall Islands 0.77 index 2018 flat
43 Papua New Guinea 0.77 index 2020 volatile
43 Guatemala 0.77 index 2024 up 250.0% rising
47 Trinidad and Tobago 0.75 index 2024 up 200.0% rising
47 Switzerland 0.75 index 2022 unchanged flat
47 Finland 0.75 index 2019 flat
47 Ghana 0.75 index 2023 up 1,400.0% volatile
51 Togo 0.7 index 2024 up 62.8% rising
51 Zimbabwe 0.7 index 2024 up 48.9% rising
51 Australia 0.7 index 2024 up 250.0% rising
54 Burundi 0.68 index 2024 up 9.7% rising
54 Bulgaria 0.68 index 2023 up 78.9% volatile
54 Eswatini 0.68 index 2024 up 172.0% rising
57 Tuvalu 0.65 index 2022 up 550.0% volatile
57 France 0.65 index 2023 up 8.3% rising
59 Vanuatu 0.6 index 2021 up 140.0% volatile
59 Mexico 0.6 index 2024 down 33.3% falling
59 Slovenia 0.6 index 2024 down 7.7% falling
62 Nauru 0.55 index 2022 up 5.8% flat
63 Burkina Faso 0.52 index 2019 rising
63 Ukraine 0.52 index 2023 up 1,633.3% rising
65 Kuwait 0.5 index 2017 unchanged flat
66 Samoa 0.47 index 2023 down 9.6% falling
67 Micronesia (country) 0.43 index 2021 down 14.0% flat
67 Angola 0.43 index 2018 falling
69 Serbia 0.32 index 2022 up 113.3% volatile
70 Bolivia 0.3 index 2021 up 50.0% rising
71 Benin 0.25 index 2020 up 150.0% rising
72 Liberia 0.17 index 2021 down 66.0% rising
72 Solomon Islands 0.17 index 2022 down 51.4% flat
74 Malawi 0.1 index 2022 down 88.2% falling
74 Ecuador 0.1 index 2023 down 41.2% volatile
76 Nepal 0.08 index 2022 up 60.0% volatile
77 Saudi Arabia 0.05 index 2021 volatile
77 Botswana 0.05 index 2022 down 58.3% volatile
77 Jamaica 0.05 index 2023 down 91.2% falling

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Indicator
Adoption and implementation of policies to reduce disaster risk
Unit
index
Source
UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
79 places, 680 data points, 2005–2025
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Score of adoption and implementation of national DRR strategies in line with the Sendai Framework.