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Disaster Risk Profile: Kosovo

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Kosovo's population and economy are exposed to earthquakes and floods, with earthquakes posing the greater risk of a high impact, lower probability event. The model results for present-day risk shown in this risk pro­file are based on population and gross domestic product (GDP) estimates for 2015. The estimated damage caused by historical events is inflated to 2015 US dollars.

Just over half of Kosovo's population lives in rural environments. The coun­try's GDP was approximately US$6.4 billion in 2015, with most derived from services and industry (together almost percent) and agriculture gener­ating the remainder. Kosovo's per capita GDP was $3,410.

This map displays GDP by province in Kosovo, with great­er color saturation indicating greater GDP within a province. The blue circles indicate the risk of experiencing floods and the orange circles the risk of earthquakes in terms of normalized annual average of affected GDP. The risk is estimated using flood and earthquake risk models.

The table displays the provinces at greatest normalized risk for each peril. In both relative and absolute terms, the provinces at greatest risk of floods in Mitrovica, and the one at greatest risk of earthquakes in Prizreni.