Natural disasters could become more destructive in the Asia-Pacific region, where a person is already five times more likely to be affected than in other area of the world, the United Nations warned Tuesday, urging countries to invest in resilience plans.
Home to 60 percent of the world's population, Asia-Pacific is the planet's most disaster-prone region.
Last year, floods, storms and extreme temperatures killed 4,987 people — far fewer than the annual average since 1970 — and affected some 34.5 million, according to the Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2017.