South America exposure#
This page provides a regional overview of the exposure model for South America, including summary tables and links to country-level exposure pages.
Regional description#
The regional exposure model combines country-level datasets into a harmonized representation of buildings, replacement costs, and exposed population.
Figure: Regional distribution of exposure across occupancy classes (residential, commercial, and industrial).
Figure: Regional distribution of exposure by building taxonomy classes.
Regional summary tables#
Exposure by country and occupancy (ADM0)#
| BUILDINGS | POPULATION | TOTAL_COST | BUILDINGS_% | POPULATION_% | TOTAL_COST_% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAME_0 | OCCUPANCY | ||||||
| Brazil | RES | 58,701.1K | 212,811.2K | $3,574,681.7M | 49.10% | 48.81% | 37.42% |
| COM | 7,858.6K | 0.0K | $1,159,113.5M | 6.57% | 0.00% | 12.13% | |
| Chile | RES | 4,004.0K | 19,859.9K | $756,838.3M | 3.35% | 4.55% | 7.92% |
| Argentina | RES | 11,325.2K | 45,851.4K | $702,928.1M | 9.47% | 10.52% | 7.36% |
| Colombia | RES | 9,114.5K | 53,111.2K | $702,520.2M | 7.62% | 12.18% | 7.35% |
| Peru | RES | 7,796.1K | 34,209.1K | $596,291.7M | 6.52% | 7.85% | 6.24% |
| Ecuador | RES | 3,489.4K | 16,891.9K | $358,173.1M | 2.92% | 3.87% | 3.75% |
| Brazil | IND | 1,260.7K | 0.0K | $278,346.7M | 1.05% | 0.00% | 2.91% |
| Peru | COM | 753.5K | 0.0K | $201,331.0M | 0.63% | 0.00% | 2.11% |
| Venezuela | RES | 6,753.9K | 28,516.9K | $199,612.2M | 5.65% | 6.54% | 2.09% |
| Argentina | COM | 551.5K | 0.0K | $150,928.9M | 0.46% | 0.00% | 1.58% |
| Chile | COM | 309.3K | 0.0K | $116,545.2M | 0.26% | 0.00% | 1.22% |
| Bolivia | RES | 3,360.3K | 12,581.8K | $83,628.7M | 2.81% | 2.89% | 0.88% |
| Ecuador | COM | 352.1K | 0.0K | $80,130.9M | 0.29% | 0.00% | 0.84% |
| Colombia | COM | 399.4K | 0.0K | $79,575.7M | 0.33% | 0.00% | 0.83% |
| Uruguay | RES | 482.9K | 3,384.7K | $75,783.6M | 0.40% | 0.78% | 0.79% |
| Chile | IND | 159.8K | 0.0K | $74,487.7M | 0.13% | 0.00% | 0.78% |
| Venezuela | COM | 385.0K | 0.0K | $51,389.7M | 0.32% | 0.00% | 0.54% |
| Colombia | IND | 326.4K | 0.0K | $50,606.3M | 0.27% | 0.00% | 0.53% |
| Argentina | IND | 209.6K | 0.0K | $49,453.0M | 0.18% | 0.00% | 0.52% |
| Paraguay | RES | 828.4K | 7,013.1K | $44,962.8M | 0.69% | 1.61% | 0.47% |
| Peru | IND | 153.2K | 0.0K | $39,037.0M | 0.13% | 0.00% | 0.41% |
| Venezuela | IND | 253.2K | 0.0K | $34,449.3M | 0.21% | 0.00% | 0.36% |
| Ecuador | IND | 157.4K | 0.0K | $20,831.3M | 0.13% | 0.00% | 0.22% |
| Bolivia | COM | 135.4K | 0.0K | $15,413.0M | 0.11% | 0.00% | 0.16% |
| Uruguay | COM | 31.5K | 0.0K | $11,103.7M | 0.03% | 0.00% | 0.12% |
| IND | 26.9K | 0.0K | $10,252.5M | 0.02% | 0.00% | 0.11% | |
| Paraguay | COM | 67.8K | 0.0K | $7,822.7M | 0.06% | 0.00% | 0.08% |
| French Guiana | RES | 36.2K | 313.6K | $7,077.7M | 0.03% | 0.07% | 0.07% |
| Paraguay | IND | 45.5K | 0.0K | $6,421.2M | 0.04% | 0.00% | 0.07% |
| Guyana | RES | 149.0K | 836.0K | $4,884.2M | 0.12% | 0.19% | 0.05% |
| Bolivia | IND | 14.6K | 0.0K | $2,573.1M | 0.01% | 0.00% | 0.03% |
| Suriname | RES | 49.6K | 639.9K | $1,897.0M | 0.04% | 0.15% | 0.02% |
| Guyana | COM | 8.0K | 0.0K | $1,267.8M | 0.01% | 0.00% | 0.01% |
| IND | 6.1K | 0.0K | $1,106.8M | 0.01% | 0.00% | 0.01% | |
| French Guiana | COM | 1.5K | 0.0K | $791.0M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.01% |
| IND | 1.0K | 0.0K | $522.2M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.01% | |
| Suriname | IND | 2.2K | 0.0K | $341.5M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| COM | 2.9K | 0.0K | $271.5M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Exposure by country and taxonomy#
| BUILDINGS | POPULATION | TOTAL_COST | BUILDINGS_% | POPULATION_% | TOTAL_COST_% | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAME_0 | MACRO_TAXONOMY | ||||||
| Brazil | CR- | 3,365,259 | 30,145,331 | $1,812,399.1M | 2.81% | 6.91% | 18.97% |
| MUR | 37,089,957 | 106,158,537 | $1,528,178.2M | 31.02% | 24.35% | 16.00% | |
| MR|MCF | 20,850,671 | 57,236,734 | $1,294,136.1M | 17.44% | 13.13% | 13.55% | |
| Argentina | MR|MCF | 3,654,667 | 14,713,755 | $381,855.6M | 3.06% | 3.37% | 4.00% |
| Chile | MR|MCF | 1,556,531 | 8,300,858 | $354,811.2M | 1.30% | 1.90% | 3.71% |
| Peru | MR|MCF | 2,269,562 | 9,481,840 | $307,864.0M | 1.90% | 2.17% | 3.22% |
| Brazil | W | 6,035,322 | 18,029,598 | $273,269.9M | 5.05% | 4.14% | 2.86% |
| Colombia | MUR | 3,399,689 | 17,238,078 | $252,557.6M | 2.84% | 3.95% | 2.64% |
| MR|MCF | 3,147,508 | 15,995,199 | $249,160.2M | 2.63% | 3.67% | 2.61% | |
| Argentina | MUR | 6,155,875 | 21,573,040 | $243,417.5M | 5.15% | 4.95% | 2.55% |
| Peru | CR- | 556,248 | 4,947,249 | $229,268.6M | 0.47% | 1.13% | 2.40% |
| Chile | CR+ | 387,696 | 2,480,105 | $219,167.4M | 0.32% | 0.57% | 2.29% |
| Colombia | CR- | 1,534,061 | 9,234,959 | $195,213.5M | 1.28% | 2.12% | 2.04% |
| Chile | W | 1,632,416 | 4,721,562 | $186,114.6M | 1.37% | 1.08% | 1.95% |
| Ecuador | MR|MCF | 1,185,654 | 6,047,739 | $184,869.9M | 0.99% | 1.39% | 1.94% |
| Argentina | CR- | 511,977 | 3,557,259 | $172,867.0M | 0.43% | 0.82% | 1.81% |
| Peru | MUR | 2,199,223 | 8,268,207 | $135,932.7M | 1.84% | 1.90% | 1.42% |
| Venezuela | MUR | 4,089,588 | 16,077,673 | $109,223.9M | 3.42% | 3.69% | 1.14% |
| Colombia | CR+ | 849,040 | 4,732,584 | $106,932.0M | 0.71% | 1.09% | 1.12% |
| Chile | CR- | 278,135 | 1,683,828 | $98,003.8M | 0.23% | 0.39% | 1.03% |
| Brazil | S | 44,263 | 0 | $92,890.4M | 0.04% | 0.00% | 0.97% |
| Ecuador | CR- | 247,923 | 1,453,321 | $91,587.1M | 0.21% | 0.33% | 0.96% |
| Venezuela | MR|MCF | 1,499,000 | 6,627,333 | $89,449.6M | 1.25% | 1.52% | 0.94% |
| Ecuador | MUR | 1,127,845 | 4,023,347 | $83,058.8M | 0.94% | 0.92% | 0.87% |
| Peru | ADO|ST|E | 2,178,358 | 6,132,890 | $59,980.0M | 1.82% | 1.41% | 0.63% |
| Ecuador | ADO|ST|E | 1,093,222 | 4,252,307 | $57,319.0M | 0.91% | 0.98% | 0.60% |
| Chile | MUR | 354,590 | 2,154,436 | $48,865.3M | 0.30% | 0.49% | 0.51% |
| Venezuela | CR- | 250,453 | 514,246 | $41,722.9M | 0.21% | 0.12% | 0.44% |
| Peru | W | 1,319,160 | 4,636,727 | $41,205.9M | 1.10% | 1.06% | 0.43% |
| Uruguay | MR|MCF | 226,515 | 1,370,547 | $41,012.4M | 0.19% | 0.31% | 0.43% |
| Peru | CR+ | 105,601 | 742,165 | $40,402.7M | 0.09% | 0.17% | 0.42% |
| Argentina | ADO|ST|E | 934,924 | 3,292,987 | $40,241.5M | 0.78% | 0.76% | 0.42% |
| Bolivia | MUR | 1,418,016 | 5,182,295 | $38,666.0M | 1.19% | 1.19% | 0.40% |
| MR|MCF | 505,313 | 1,981,045 | $32,830.5M | 0.42% | 0.45% | 0.34% | |
| Chile | S | 83,443 | 0 | $31,277.0M | 0.07% | 0.00% | 0.33% |
| Argentina | W | 602,332 | 2,292,088 | $30,612.0M | 0.50% | 0.53% | 0.32% |
| S | 120,732 | 0 | $30,086.6M | 0.10% | 0.00% | 0.31% | |
| Paraguay | MR|MCF | 448,649 | 3,218,468 | $29,443.1M | 0.38% | 0.74% | 0.31% |
| Venezuela | S | 246,483 | 30,696 | $26,161.1M | 0.21% | 0.01% | 0.27% |
| Peru | S | 74,588 | 0 | $22,005.8M | 0.06% | 0.00% | 0.23% |
| Uruguay | ADO|ST|E | 133,748 | 961,217 | $21,239.6M | 0.11% | 0.22% | 0.22% |
| CR- | 24,307 | 26,907 | $17,319.2M | 0.02% | 0.01% | 0.18% | |
| Bolivia | ADO|ST|E | 1,164,628 | 3,913,761 | $16,746.5M | 0.97% | 0.90% | 0.18% |
| Ecuador | CR+ | 51,797 | 179,405 | $16,267.3M | 0.04% | 0.04% | 0.17% |
| Colombia | S | 66,781 | 0 | $15,607.4M | 0.06% | 0.00% | 0.16% |
| Uruguay | MUR | 146,885 | 1,026,017 | $14,990.8M | 0.12% | 0.24% | 0.16% |
| Ecuador | W | 248,362 | 935,735 | $14,105.5M | 0.21% | 0.21% | 0.15% |
| S | 44,013 | 0 | $11,927.7M | 0.04% | 0.00% | 0.12% | |
| Brazil | OT | 435,019 | 1,241,048 | $11,268.2M | 0.36% | 0.28% | 0.12% |
| Venezuela | W | 550,503 | 2,226,745 | $10,626.6M | 0.46% | 0.51% | 0.11% |
| Paraguay | ADO|ST|E | 206,316 | 1,820,305 | $10,356.7M | 0.17% | 0.42% | 0.11% |
| MUR | 227,544 | 1,943,130 | $9,307.0M | 0.19% | 0.45% | 0.10% | |
| Colombia | W | 606,918 | 3,988,433 | $9,053.4M | 0.51% | 0.91% | 0.09% |
| Paraguay | CR- | 40,458 | 31,175 | $8,330.9M | 0.03% | 0.01% | 0.09% |
| Bolivia | W | 332,700 | 1,178,897 | $6,988.5M | 0.28% | 0.27% | 0.07% |
| Venezuela | ADO|ST|E | 735,173 | 2,824,517 | $5,528.8M | 0.61% | 0.65% | 0.06% |
| Bolivia | CR- | 34,653 | 116,074 | $5,249.2M | 0.03% | 0.03% | 0.05% |
| Chile | ADO|ST|E | 114,709 | 330,072 | $5,245.1M | 0.10% | 0.08% | 0.05% |
| OT | 65,519 | 189,062 | $4,386.9M | 0.05% | 0.04% | 0.05% | |
| Colombia | ADO|ST|E | 187,670 | 1,645,174 | $3,556.1M | 0.16% | 0.38% | 0.04% |
| Guyana | W | 119,702 | 670,068 | $3,279.9M | 0.10% | 0.15% | 0.03% |
| Argentina | OT | 103,596 | 364,787 | $3,246.1M | 0.09% | 0.08% | 0.03% |
| Venezuela | CR+ | 15,488 | 188,795 | $2,712.2M | 0.01% | 0.04% | 0.03% |
| French Guiana | CR- | 3,468 | 87,783 | $2,609.2M | 0.00% | 0.02% | 0.03% |
| Uruguay | S | 9,578 | 0 | $2,518.4M | 0.01% | 0.00% | 0.03% |
| French Guiana | MR|MCF | 15,010 | 82,226 | $2,457.7M | 0.01% | 0.02% | 0.03% |
| MUR | 13,362 | 95,854 | $2,234.0M | 0.01% | 0.02% | 0.02% | |
| Guyana | CR- | 16,206 | 58,985 | $2,020.6M | 0.01% | 0.01% | 0.02% |
| Paraguay | S | 18,365 | 0 | $1,730.8M | 0.02% | 0.00% | 0.02% |
| Suriname | MUR | 40,387 | 503,060 | $1,613.8M | 0.03% | 0.12% | 0.02% |
| Argentina | CR+ | 2,129 | 57,462 | $983.6M | 0.00% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| Guyana | MR|MCF | 5,924 | 0 | $948.6M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.01% |
| French Guiana | W | 6,292 | 46,339 | $899.2M | 0.01% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| Bolivia | OT | 52,892 | 196,213 | $810.0M | 0.04% | 0.05% | 0.01% |
| Guyana | MUR | 12,040 | 60,832 | $630.0M | 0.01% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| Colombia | OT | 48,622 | 276,773 | $622.0M | 0.04% | 0.06% | 0.01% |
| Suriname | W | 9,594 | 136,305 | $312.1M | 0.01% | 0.03% | 0.00% |
| Guyana | S | 2,248 | 0 | $281.8M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| Suriname | CR- | 1,782 | 0 | $276.6M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| MR|MCF | 2,122 | 0 | $228.0M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | |
| Bolivia | S | 1,515 | 0 | $180.2M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| French Guiana | S | 402 | 0 | $149.0M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| Bolivia | CR+ | 595 | 13,559 | $143.9M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| Suriname | S | 866 | 0 | $78.9M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| Guyana | OT | 5,300 | 34,918 | $69.6M | 0.00% | 0.01% | 0.00% |
| Uruguay | W | 214 | 0 | $59.4M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| French Guiana | ADO|ST|E | 186 | 1,442 | $41.6M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| Paraguay | W | 374 | 0 | $38.3M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| Guyana | ADO|ST|E | 1,715 | 11,184 | $28.4M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | OT | 5,463 | 26,889 | $25.9M | 0.00% | 0.01% | 0.00% |
| Suriname | OT | 32 | 484 | $0.6M | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |