LONDON, Oct. 15 -- In Chad, more than half of adults say a disaster has hit them in the past five years, and only 42 percent of those people were warned beforehand, the lowest rate among the 13 countries the United Nations has named as priorities for its Early Warnings for All initiative with enough data to measure.

The figure comes from the 2026 World Risk Poll, published on Tuesday by the Lloyd's Register Foundation and based on more than 143,000 Gallup interviews in 140 countries and territories in 2025. Globally, 80 percent of people impacted by a disaster received at least one advance warning. Central and Western Africa is the only region where fewer than half did, at 47 percent, and the Republic of the Congo and Gabon, at 24 percen...