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Who climate change displaces

How exposed each country is to climate disruption, and how little it can absorb — the ND-GAIN vulnerability index. This is not a map of where it gets hottest.

Fiji — High · score 0.489Tanzania — High · score 0.505Western Sahara — No scoreCanada — Very low · score 0.282United States — Very low · score 0.317Kazakhstan — Low · score 0.355Uzbekistan — Low · score 0.393Papua New Guinea — High · score 0.549Indonesia — Medium · score 0.431Argentina — Medium · score 0.408Chile — Low · score 0.347Congo (DRC) — Very high · score 0.571Somalia — Very high · score 0.638Kenya — High · score 0.482Sudan — Very high · score 0.629Chad — Very high · score 0.638Haiti — High · score 0.534Dominican Republic — Medium · score 0.470Russia — Very low · score 0.310Bahamas — Medium · score 0.447FK — No scoreNorway — Very low · score 0.263GL — No scoreTimor-Leste — High · score 0.545South Africa — Medium · score 0.436Lesotho — High · score 0.507Mexico — Medium · score 0.412Uruguay — Low · score 0.394Brazil — Low · score 0.366Bolivia — Medium · score 0.453Peru — Medium · score 0.418Colombia — Medium · score 0.407Panama — Medium · score 0.428Costa Rica — Low · score 0.387Nicaragua — Medium · score 0.423Honduras — Medium · score 0.471El Salvador — Medium · score 0.452Guatemala — Medium · score 0.455Belize — High · score 0.483Venezuela — Low · score 0.386Guyana — Medium · score 0.467Suriname — Medium · score 0.442France — Very low · score 0.321Ecuador — Medium · score 0.476Puerto Rico — No scoreJamaica — Medium · score 0.451Cuba — Medium · score 0.457Zimbabwe — High · score 0.511Botswana — High · score 0.484Namibia — High · score 0.511Senegal — High · score 0.529Mali — Very high · score 0.585Mauritania — Very high · score 0.655Benin — Very high · score 0.584Niger — Very high · score 0.587Nigeria — High · score 0.490Cameroon — Medium · score 0.478Togo — High · score 0.509Ghana — Medium · score 0.455Ivory Coast — High · score 0.488Guinea — Medium · score 0.474Guinea-Bissau — Very high · score 0.622Liberia — Very high · score 0.582Sierra Leone — Very high · score 0.602Burkina Faso — High · score 0.523Central African Republic — Very high · score 0.588Congo (Brazzaville) — High · score 0.549Gabon — Medium · score 0.450Equatorial Guinea — Medium · score 0.450Zambia — High · score 0.492Malawi — Very high · score 0.567Mozambique — High · score 0.511Eswatini — High · score 0.482Angola — High · score 0.528Burundi — Very high · score 0.610Israel — Low · score 0.344Lebanon — Medium · score 0.455Madagascar — Very high · score 0.550Palestine — No scoreGambia — Very high · score 0.551Tunisia — Medium · score 0.441Algeria — Medium · score 0.430Jordan — Medium · score 0.429United Arab Emirates — Medium · score 0.416Qatar — Medium · score 0.418Kuwait — Medium · score 0.435Iraq — High · score 0.497Oman — Medium · score 0.450Vanuatu — High · score 0.547Cambodia — Medium · score 0.472Thailand — Medium · score 0.443Laos — Medium · score 0.452Myanmar — High · score 0.488Vietnam — High · score 0.499North Korea — High · score 0.513South Korea — Low · score 0.356Mongolia — Low · score 0.396India — Medium · score 0.475Bangladesh — High · score 0.544Bhutan — High · score 0.528Nepal — High · score 0.504Pakistan — High · score 0.525Afghanistan — Very high · score 0.612Tajikistan — Low · score 0.367Kyrgyzstan — Low · score 0.344Turkmenistan — Medium · score 0.448Iran — Medium · score 0.429Syria — High · score 0.521Armenia — Low · score 0.394Sweden — Very low · score 0.323Belarus — Low · score 0.355Ukraine — Low · score 0.385Poland — Very low · score 0.314Austria — Very low · score 0.323Hungary — Low · score 0.380Moldova — Medium · score 0.450Romania — Low · score 0.398Lithuania — Low · score 0.374Latvia — Low · score 0.387Estonia — Low · score 0.361Germany — Very low · score 0.296Bulgaria — Low · score 0.361Greece — Low · score 0.356Türkiye — Low · score 0.396Albania — Medium · score 0.416Croatia — Low · score 0.399Switzerland — Very low · score 0.296Luxembourg — Low · score 0.341Belgium — Low · score 0.366Netherlands — Low · score 0.371Portugal — Low · score 0.352Spain — Very low · score 0.323Ireland — Very low · score 0.317NC — No scoreSolomon Islands — Very high · score 0.622New Zealand — Very low · score 0.297Australia — Very low · score 0.300Sri Lanka — Medium · score 0.436China — Low · score 0.394Taiwan — No scoreItaly — Low · score 0.357Denmark — Low · score 0.342United Kingdom — Very low · score 0.282Iceland — Very low · score 0.315Azerbaijan — Medium · score 0.428Georgia — Medium · score 0.413Philippines — Medium · score 0.430Malaysia — Low · score 0.365Brunei — Medium · score 0.424Slovenia — Low · score 0.344Finland — Very low · score 0.306Slovakia — Low · score 0.367Czechia — Very low · score 0.305Eritrea — Very high · score 0.629Japan — Low · score 0.353Paraguay — Low · score 0.380Yemen — Very high · score 0.629Saudi Arabia — Medium · score 0.471Cyprus — Low · score 0.355Morocco — Medium · score 0.450Egypt — Medium · score 0.469Libya — High · score 0.490Ethiopia — High · score 0.508Djibouti — Very high · score 0.598Uganda — High · score 0.536Rwanda — Very high · score 0.610Bosnia & Herzegovina — Low · score 0.380North Macedonia — Medium · score 0.410Serbia — Medium · score 0.470Montenegro — Medium · score 0.421Kosovo — No scoreTrinidad & Tobago — Low · score 0.386South Sudan — No score
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Index for 2024. Source: University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) Country Index (CC BY 3.0)

Most vulnerable

🇲🇷 Mauritania0.655
🇹🇩 Chad0.638
🇸🇴 Somalia0.638
🇪🇷 Eritrea0.629
🇸🇩 Sudan0.629
🇾🇪 Yemen0.629
🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau0.622
🇸🇧 Solomon Islands0.622
🇫🇲 Micronesia0.621
🇦🇫 Afghanistan0.612
🇧🇮 Burundi0.610
🇷🇼 Rwanda0.610
🇸🇱 Sierra Leone0.602
🇩🇯 Djibouti0.598
🇹🇴 Tonga0.595
🇨🇫 Central African Republic0.588
🇳🇪 Niger0.587
🇲🇱 Mali0.585
🇧🇯 Benin0.584
🇱🇷 Liberia0.582

A country's score says nothing about any one person, and it does not mean anyone there qualifies for protection. No country grants refugee status on climate grounds alone, and the term “climate refugee” has no basis in law.