UN Disaster Warning Report: 136 Countries Have Some Early Warning Capacity, Only 64 Cover All Four Pillars, 2027 Full Coverage Target Unlikely
A draft UN report seen by Reuters found gaps in disaster early warning systems worldwide, especially around operational readiness and financing. The report measured progress across risk knowledge, detection, monitoring and forecasting, warning dissemination, and preparedness and response.
More than two-thirds of countries, 136 in total, have some early warning capacity, a 143 percent increase since reporting began in 2015. Only 64 of them had capability across all four pillars, the report found.
The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction said a 2027 target of full coverage for everybody was unlikely to be met. Data from the Lloyds Register Foundation World Risk Poll cited in the report showed that in low-income and lower-middle-income countries, fewer than half of those warned were able to act on the warning, compared with three-quarters in upper-middle-income countries.
Of people surveyed in 2025 who had experienced a disaster in the previous five years, 80 percent had received at least one warning, but the share was 95 percent in East Asia and 47 percent in Central and Western Africa. James Kinyangi of the African Development Bank told Reuters the extra investment required in Africa ranged between 5 billion and 10 billion dollars. The report said 38 countries have fully operational cell-broadcast warning systems and another 17 are in the final stages of developing them.
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