Answer: 9th
Notes: India ranks 9th among the ten countries most affected by extreme weather events in the Climate Risk Index (CRI) 2026 by Germanwatch, released at COP30 in Belém, Brazil. The index covers data from 1995 to 2024, showing India’s rising vulnerability to heat waves, floods, and cyclones. India faced nearly 430 extreme weather events, causing over 80,000 deaths, affecting 1.3 billion people, and inflicting $170 billion in losses. The report calls India a nation facing continuous climate threats with little recovery time between disasters. Floods, landslides, heat waves, and cyclones like Amphan (2020), Fani (2019), and Hudhud (2014) caused major destruction
