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. 2019 Feb 11;17:18. doi: 10.1186/s12961-019-0418-1

Table 2.

Most active countries and international collaboration on health-related aspects of natural disasters (1900–2017)

Country Frequency
N = 9073
% GDP per capita (×1000) Number of publications per GDP per capita Number of collaborating countries SCP % MCP %
United States 3128 34.5 57.467 54.4 101 2516 80.4 612 19.6
Japan 700 7.7 38.895 18.0 52 568 81.1 132 18.9
China 636 7.0 8.123 78.3 41 466 73.3 170 26.7
Australia 394 4.3 49.928 7.9 52 227 57.6 167 42.4
United Kingdom 357 3.9 39.899 8.9 71 159 44.5 198 55.5
Canada 241 2.7 42.158 5.7 54 117 48.5 124 51.5
Italy 213 2.3 30.527 7.0 47 117 54.9 96 45.1
India 209 2.3 1.741 120.0 29 169 80.9 40 19.1
Germany 181 2.0 41.936 4.3 44 122 67.4 59 32.6
France 161 1.8 36.855 4.4 57 94 58.4 67 41.6
Turkey 152 1.7 10.788 14.1 26 89 58.6 63 41.4
New Zealand 150 1.7 39.427 3.8 9 121 80.7 29 19.3
Iran 138 1.5 5.305 26.0 12 97 70.3 41 29.7
Sweden 123 1.4 51.600 2.4 36 62 50.4 61 49.6
Israel 108 1.2 37.293 2.9 29 58 53.7 50 46.3
Switzerland 108 1.2 78.813 1.4 41 51 47.2 57 52.8
Taiwan 101 1.1 24.577 4.1 21 63 62.4 38 37.6

GDP gross domestic product, SCP single country publications, MCP multiple country publications