World Bank Enterprise Survey: Firm Asset Damage from Extreme Weather

This dataset provides firm-level survey results aggregated by country and sector, measuring the vulnerability of businesses to extreme weather events. It includes data from 2021 to 2025, detailing whether firms in various regions and industries (Manufacturing, Services, etc.) have reported physical asset damage. The data is structured using standard World Bank indicator codes and geographic identifiers to allow for cross-country comparisons of climate-related economic risks.

Data Quality

The dataset follows the standardized World Bank Enterprise Survey (ES) methodology, ensuring consistency in indicator definitions. However, the data is sparse across years because surveys are conducted in different countries on a rotating schedule. The years 2023 and 2024 contain the highest density of reported values.

Use Cases

Assessing private sector vulnerability to climate change, developing national adaptation strategies, analyzing economic impacts of extreme weather on SMEs, and prioritizing development aid for climate resilience.

Limitations

Significant missing values (nulls) for years where specific countries were not surveyed. The data is based on firm self-reporting, which may vary in accuracy depending on the firm's internal record-keeping of weather-related losses.

Methodology

The data was collected through the Enterprise Survey (ES) framework, which uses a global standard questionnaire administered to a representative sample of an economy's private sector. Samples are stratified by size, sector, and region.