FM Global has released the Global Business Resilence Index 2015. India has been ranked 119th out of 130 countries. The Index helps the business executives all over the world to target their investments towards more genuine returns and also to protect their customers from any kind of unexpected disruption. India was ranked 112 in 2014 FM Global Business Resilience Index.

The Index is based on nine key drivers that are categorized into three important factors.

The Key Drivers

1. GDP per capita
2. Political risk including terrorism
3. Oil intensity
4. Exposure to natural hazards
5. Quality of natural hazard risk management
6. Quality of fire risk management
7. Control of corruption
8. Quality of the infrastructure
9. Quality of local supplies

The Three Important Factors

1. Economic Productivity (India’s rank – 115)
2. Risk Quality (India’s rank – 109)
3. Supply Chain to assess business resilience of the countries (India’s rank – 89).

According to the report, even though India is having a huge economic potential, it is placed at 119th position, because in India, one third of people are still living below poverty line.

The Top 10 countries

The Bottom Five Countries

Most of the European Countries occupies the top 25 positions.