Table 1 Percentages of compound flood risk quintiles across continents under three vulnerability functions

From: Global mapping of potential coastal compound flood risk at 0.1 resolution

 

Empirical (%)

Risk-taking (%)

Risk-averse (%)

Continent

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Q5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Q5

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

Q5

Africa

19.15

17.55

16.49

26.60

20.21

25.94

34.43

16.51

15.57

7.55

13.21

11.79

14.62

27.36

33.02

Asia

5.66

11.57

23.65

23.91

35.22

5.31

7.25

21.98

28.50

36.96

4.59

10.87

14.25

23.43

46.86

Europe

25.27

23.94

14.63

19.15

17.02

15.03

16.06

18.91

21.24

28.76

30.57

27.46

30.05

10.88

1.04

North America

35.26

24.86

21.97

15.61

2.31

30.56

29.17

24.54

12.96

2.78

28.24

34.72

17.59

10.65

8.80

Oceania

51.85

29.63

14.81

3.70

0.00

70.73

10.98

13.41

4.88

0.00

35.37

8.54

25.61

28.05

2.44

South America

19.78

27.47

24.18

18.68

9.89

16.84

25.26

31.58

21.05

5.26

21.05

26.32

17.89

23.16

11.58

  1. Five quintiles (Q1–Q5) to indicate relative risk, with Q5 representing the highest risk.