BusinessWorld E-paper
September 25, 2025
THE PHILIPPINES kept its title as the world’s most disaster-prone nation for a 21st straight year, with typhoons and floods battering communities while billions of pesos meant to protect them vanish in graft scandals.
The Southeast Asian country posted a risk score of 46.56 in the 2025 WorldRiskIndex, unchanged from last year but still ahead of 192 other nations. India ranked second, followed by Indonesia, Colombia and Mexico, according to the study released on Wednesday by Germany’s Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft and Ruhr University Bochum.
