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Regional flood risk elevated due to settlement of vulnerable areas — BMI
Business World Philippines
|December 03, 2025
SOUTHEAST ASIA is facing rapidly rising exposure to severe flooding as climate change accelerates, and populations expand in vulnerable areas, according to a study by BMI, a unit of Fitch Solutions.
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BMI said the region is increasingly experiencing “compound disasters,” or extreme weather events that occur in close succession, which strain response systems.
BMI reported that Southeast Asia’s exposure to high-intensity flood risk remains among the highest globally.
About 20% of the population in Indonesia and Malaysia lives in areas that face significant flood threats. In the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Singapore, the percentage is between 14% and 15%.
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