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…and in countries already experiencing
flooding

Almost one third of the world’s largest economies are for water stress, with coal mining, textile manufacturing India, Indonesia, Philippines, Pakistan and Iran. Together
expected to experience (extremely) high flood risk and agriculture being the sectors most prone to flood risk. they account for 42% of global GDP and half of the world
Many industries are in competition for water, but there are Of course both water stress and flood risk can vary population lives in these countries. Businesses that are
also regions where the main concern for businesses is to considerably between regions within countries, but the located in the flood prone regions of these countries face
protect against too much water. Of the world’s 60 largest overall picture is that several water-intensive sectors are two water challenges; how to get enough water for
economies selected for this report, 21 face high to highly concentrated in countries prone to flooding. production and how to protect the business from flooding.
extremely high flood risk, based on actual floods over 7 out of 60 countries experience high water stress as well as
1985-2011. The picture for flood risks resembles the picture flood risk. These countries are the United States, China,

Majority of water intensive industries located in countries prone to flooding *21 countries that the WRI indicates as high to extremely high flood risk are: Austria,
Share of 21 flood prone countries* in world total, by sector Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Korea,
Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Romania, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom,
United States, Vietnam.

78% 78% 78% 69% 63% 61% 60% 46% 55%
coal mining textiles agriculture base metal chemicals /
F&B paper metals mining global GDP
China (43%) refining
US (8%) China (27%) production

Top-4 producers China (53%) China (40%) China (30%) Korea (6%) US (17%) China (25%) US (22%) US (12%) US (23%)
US (8%) India (8%) India (11%) India (6%) Korea (3%)
(of 21 ‘flood prone Indonesia (5%) India (2%) US (16%) China (18%) Brazil (12%) China (14%)
countries’, in terms Indonesia (4%) US (6%)
of GVA) Malaysia (4%) US (5%) Nigeria (4%) Brazil (4%) Brazil (4%) China (6%) UK (4%)

India (3%) Indonesia (3%) Indonesia (5%) Brazil (3%)

Source: calculations ING Economics Department, based on Oxford Economics, WRI (from Aquastat)

ING Economics Department 8 Too little, too much / December 2015