FM Global has released its 2022 global resilience index which ranks 130 countries on how well they can cope with stress and disruption. FM Global ranked NZ 19th, with a score of 86.8.

The data aims to help inform strategic corporate decisions, like evaluating supply chains or new plant sites by evaluating the relative resilience of a country’s business environment.

The index uses 15 measures of resilience, with two new measures introduced this year focusing on Climate Risk Exposure – how much economic activity is susceptible to severe floods and winds; and Climate Risk Quality – ability to withstand such events through building codes and code enforcement.

While New Zealand ranks highly in terms of supply chain factor, ranked 7th with a score of 91.6 (infrastructure quality, control of corruption, corporate governance, supply chain visibility and supply chain timeliness) our risk quality is worse, with a ranking of 44th and score of 74.5, in part due to our low score of 8.2 on the Seismic Risk Exposure category.

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