Typhoon Maysak, the Philippines |
This figure represents 17.7% of the annual average GDP (1.69 billion USD) generated by major cities in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Burma and Singapore.
The most important threats for the 15 Asian cities identified are made up of: typhoons (68.29 billion USD), followed by earthquakes (30.06 billion USD) and floods (22.48 billion USD).
Events generated by human activity have also been listed. They are financial crashes (60.8 billion USD) and pandemics (30.74 billion USD).