Coronavirussen has taken the majority of the world with days and weeks apart. Some nations have been hit with a violence that has pushed countries ‘ healthcare systems to the brink of collapse.
most have heard skrækscenarierne from Italy and seen the horrific pictures from New York, where hospitals are allowed to use frysevogne to the many dead.
Undoubtedly, some countries will cope with the pandemic better than the other. The pandemic is to be tackled differently, and all are not hit equally hard.
Many factors of how fast and well the countries get back on their feet again.
One of them is, how robust countries, and it draws Global Resilience Index 2019, which is made of forsikringsgiganten FM Global, a picture of. You can see the world map HERE.
We have measured 130 countries will be able to get through a crisis from factors such as political stability, economic strength and risk in relation to different hazards.
Number one on the list we find Norway, which scores 100 points in the data set.
In second place is Denmark. We are among other things high on the parameters of the economy and the supply chain.
According to the Global Resilience Index is the risk that the strong Danish government will be overthrown or destabilized low, and the same with corruption and risio for natural disasters.
the united states ranks high on the visibility in our supply chain.
Looking at the increasing, which the Danish government introduced in order to contain the coronavirus, so they were also hard and came more quickly than many other countries.
at the Bottom of the list you will find countries like Haiti (no. 130), and Venezuela (129).
Haiti is still struggling with the effects of hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Venezuela with major problems in relation to corruption and hyperinflation.
Countries throughout the world are struggling in this time of providing protective equipment and respirators in the world, and that plays both the economy and the political power of a big role.
Denmark has, despite deficiencies in some areas continuously secured the necessary funds, but different, it looks for the ‘weakest’ countries have Peter Bay Kirkegaard, seniorchefkonsulent in Danish Industry, previously explained.
“Developing countries don’t produce even protective equipment and must, like all others on the world market in order to buy it. One fear, that they end up in the back of the queue, because they do not have a great economy and political power,” he said.
