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Índice de fragilidad de las infraestructuras

Index of transport and digital connectivity deficits, utility fragility, energy supply unreliability and realised disruption impact on a 0–10 scale, higher meaning more fragile.

Page GRX-IDX-INFEdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30Indicator Standard IDX.INF.disruption.infrastructure_fragilityValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
FIG 1 · Method card
Aggregation

geometric

expert weights · floor 0.1 where geometric

Incertidumbre

1,000 draws

normalisation, weights, aggregation, imputation

Estructura

5 components

24 leaf indicators

Cobertura

67% minimum

modelled share ≤ 30%

From the Indicator Standard definition of this index.
24
leaf indicators
5
components
1,000
Monte Carlo draws
10
series read it
01Construction

From indicators to the composite

Shows how likely infrastructure is to fail or isolate people under stress, and how much it already has; sub-indices stay visible beside the total.

computation
How Infrastructure fragility is computed
Graph32 nodes
Grafo
01Indicadores
02Sub-indices
03Domain index
04Pilar
05Compuesto
100%
Índice
  1. Población rural a menos de 2 km de una carretera transitable todo el año
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of the rural population living within two kilometres (about a 20-minute walk) of a road passable in all seasons, estimated from gridded population and road-network condition data.
  2. Desempeño logístico
    Indicator · IND · score
    Overall score of trade logistics performance (customs, infrastructure, shipments, logistics competence, tracking, timeliness) on a 1–5 scale, as an external source series.
  3. Conectividad del transporte marítimo de línea respecto de la frontera
    Indicator · IND · %
    Liner shipping connectivity of the economy’s ports (ship deployment, container capacity, services, companies, direct connections) as a percentage of the highest-scoring economy in the same year.
  4. Pasajeros aéreos transportados per cápita
    Indicator · IND · passengers/a/person
    Passengers carried on domestic and international flights by carriers registered in the economy, per resident per year.
  5. Población urbana con acceso conveniente al transporte público
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of the urban population living within 500 m walking distance of a low-capacity public transport stop or 1 km of a high-capacity one.
  6. Personas que usan Internet
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of individuals who used the Internet from any location and device in the last three months.
  7. Población cubierta por una red móvil, por tecnología
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of the population within range of a mobile-cellular signal, reported separately for 2G, 3G, 4G/LTE and 5G; the headline value is 4G or better.
  8. Suscripciones de banda ancha fija por cada 100 habitantes
    Indicator · IND · /10*2
    Fixed subscriptions to the public Internet at advertised download speeds of at least 256 kbit/s, per 100 inhabitants, by speed tier.
  9. Redundancia de rutas de conectividad internacional
    Indicator · IND · 1
    Number of physically diverse international connectivity routes (distinct subsea-cable landing stations and cross-border terrestrial fibre routes) serving the economy, capped at ten.
  10. Resiliencia de la red eléctrica
    Indicator · IND · score
    Target-defined score (0–1) combining transmission N-1 compliance, share of demand restorable within 24 hours after a major event, black-start capability and hardening of critical substations against flood, wind, heat and geomagnetic stress.
  11. Resiliencia de la red de abastecimiento de agua
    Indicator · IND · score
    Target-defined score (0–1) combining non-revenue water, storage in days of average demand, source redundancy, back-up power at treatment and pumping sites, and planned restoration time after a major event.
  12. Instalaciones críticas con energía de respaldo para 72 horas
    Indicator · IND · %
    Share of hospitals, emergency operations centres, water and wastewater plants and telecom core sites with on-site back-up power and fuel for at least 72 hours of operation.
  13. Brecha de inversión en infraestructura, porcentaje del PIB
    Indicator · IND · %
    Difference between the estimated annual investment needed to meet infrastructure service and resilience needs (energy, transport, water, telecom) and current-trend investment, as a percentage of GDP.
  14. Cortes de electricidad sufridos por las empresas en un mes típico
    Indicator · IND · /mo
    Average number of electrical outages that formal private firms report in a typical month, from establishment surveys.
  15. Valor perdido por cortes eléctricos, porcentaje de las ventas de las empresas
    Indicator · IND · %
    Losses that firms attribute to power outages as a percentage of annual sales, from establishment surveys.
  16. Duración media de las interrupciones del sistema (SAIDI)
    Indicator · IND · h/a
    Total minutes of sustained supply interruption per customer served in the year, expressed in hours, as reported by distribution utilities under the IEEE 1366 convention.
  17. Frecuencia media de las interrupciones del sistema (SAIFI)
    Indicator · IND · /a
    Number of sustained supply interruptions per customer served in the year, as reported by distribution utilities under the IEEE 1366 convention.
  18. Pérdidas en la transmisión y distribución de electricidad
    Indicator · IND · %
    Electricity lost between generation and the consumer, technical and commercial, as a share of electricity output.
  19. Unidades de infraestructura crítica dañadas o destruidas por desastres
    Indicator · IND · 1
    Number of critical infrastructure units and facilities (health, education, transport, utilities, other) damaged or destroyed by hazardous events in the year.
  20. Centros de salud dañados o destruidos por desastres
    Indicator · IND · 1
    Number of health facilities damaged or destroyed by hazardous events in the year.
  21. Centros educativos dañados o destruidos por desastres
    Indicator · IND · 1
    Number of educational facilities damaged or destroyed by hazardous events in the year.
  22. Interrupciones de servicios básicos atribuidas a desastres
    Indicator · IND · 1
    Number of disruption events to basic services (education, health, and other basic services such as water, power, transport, telecom and waste) caused by hazardous events in the year.
  23. Pérdidas económicas directas en infraestructura crítica, porcentaje del PIB
    Indicator · IND · %
    Direct economic loss from damage to or destruction of critical infrastructure by hazardous events in the year, as a percentage of GDP.
  24. Horas de interrupción de Internet a escala nacional
    Indicator · IND · h/a
    Total hours in the year during which measured national internet connectivity fell below half of its expected level, whether from shutdowns, cable cuts, power loss or attack.
  25. Transport connectivity deficit sub-index
    Sub-index · SUB · w 1 · 22.2%
    Composite of the lack of rural all-season road access, weak logistics performance, low liner shipping connectivity, low air connectivity and limited urban public transport, each inverted.
  26. Digital connectivity deficit sub-index
    Sub-index · SUB · w 1 · 22.2%
    Composite of the lack of internet use, mobile coverage, fixed broadband and international route redundancy, each inverted.
  27. Utility system fragility sub-index
    Sub-index · SUB · w 1 · 22.2%
    Composite of the lack of power-grid and water-network resilience and of back-up power at critical facilities, together with the infrastructure investment gap.
  28. Electricity supply unreliability sub-index
    Sub-index · SUB · w 1 · 22.2%
    Composite of firm-reported outages and sales losses, SAIDI, SAIFI and network losses.
  29. Infrastructure disruption impact sub-index
    Sub-index · SUB · w 0.5 · 11.1%
    Composite of disaster damage to critical infrastructure, health and education facilities, basic-service disruptions, economic loss to infrastructure and internet disruption hours, normalised over a ten-year rolling window.
  30. Índice de fragilidad de las infraestructuras
    Domain index · IDX · geometric
    Index of transport and digital connectivity deficits, utility fragility, energy supply unreliability and realised disruption impact on a 0–10 scale, higher meaning more fragile.
  31. Vulnerabilidad humana y de los sistemas
    Pillar · PILLAR · 8 indices
    How susceptible are people, livelihoods, ecosystems and essential systems to harm when a shock arrives?
  32. NXS-GRX (canonical data, provenance and risk) Composite Risk
    Composite · COMPOSITE · four pillars
    Composite = (HTE × VUL × MSF × LCC)^(1/4), each pillar on 0–10 floored at 0.1; pillar = expert-weighted geometric mean of its domain indices
Sin ejecutarEn cursoCompletado
FIG 2. 24 indicators, 5 components, real Indicator Standard weights (the bar under each node is its share). Select a node to trace what it feeds and what feeds it; Simulate run plays the computation in order. Schematic of the construction; source: Indicator Standard composite definitions.
02Simulator

Run this index’s own aggregation

Set each component, change the aggregation or the weight uncertainty, and watch the interval, the class probability and each component’s contribution respond.

FIG 3 · Simulator: aggregate infrastructure fragility on your numbers
Components (0 to 10)
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Contribution of each component (leave one out)
Simulator: the index’s published aggregation run on numbers you set, with 1,000 draws over weights and aggregation. The slider positions are starting points for the explainer, not NXS-GRX values. Simulated on your own inputs; not a measured result.
03Método

Treatment, normalisation, weighting, aggregation, uncertainty

Treatment
WINSORISE
Outlier rule
|skew| > 2, kurtosis > 3.5
Normalisation
INFORM 0–10 rescaling
Imputation
NONE
Coverage minimum
67% of components
Modelled share cap
30% of weight
Weighting
experto
Aggregation
geometric
Scale
0 to 10
Incertidumbre
1,000 Monte Carlo runs over normalisation, weights, aggregation, imputation
Framework basis
OECD/JRC Handbook (2008); JRC COIN 10-step guide; Sendai Framework target D; UNDRR Principles for Resilient Infrastructure (2022)
Muy bajo0,0 a < 2,0
Bajo2,0 a < 3,5
Medio3,5 a < 5,0
Alto5,0 a < 6,5
Muy alto6.5 a 10.0
04Components

5 components, 24 indicators

Transport connectivity deficit sub-index w 1

Composite of the lack of rural all-season road access, weak logistics performance, low liner shipping connectivity, low air connectivity and limited urban public transport, each inverted.

IndicadorUnidadEvidenciaFuentesProporción
Población rural a menos de 2 km de una carretera transitable todo el añoIND.INF.transport.rural_road_access%Class Cwb-rural-access-index, openstreetmap, worldpop33.3%
Desempeño logísticoIND.INF.transport.logistics_performance{score}Class Ewb-lpi22.2%
Conectividad del transporte marítimo de línea respecto de la fronteraIND.INF.transport.liner_shipping_connectivity%Class Bunctad-lsci, wb-wdi22.2%
Pasajeros aéreos transportados per cápitaIND.INF.transport.air_passengers.pc{passengers}/a/{person}Class Bicao-air-transport-reporting, wb-wdi11.1%
Población urbana con acceso conveniente al transporte públicoIND.INF.transport.public_transport_access%Class Cun-habitat-urban-indicators-database, gtfs-feeds, openstreetmap11.1%

Digital connectivity deficit sub-index w 1

Composite of the lack of internet use, mobile coverage, fixed broadband and international route redundancy, each inverted.

IndicadorUnidadEvidenciaFuentesProporción
Personas que usan InternetIND.INF.digital.internet_users%Class Bitu-datahub, wb-wdi, national-ict-household-surveys33.3%
Población cubierta por una red móvil, por tecnologíaIND.INF.digital.mobile_network_coverage%Class Bitu-datahub, gsma-mobile-coverage-maps33.3%
Suscripciones de banda ancha fija por cada 100 habitantesIND.INF.digital.fixed_broadband/10*2Class Bitu-datahub, wb-wdi, oecd-broadband-portal16.7%
Redundancia de rutas de conectividad internacionalIND.INF.digital.international_connectivity_redundancy1Class Dtelegeography-submarine-cable-map, itu-broadband-maps, peeringdb16.7%

Utility system fragility sub-index w 1

Composite of the lack of power-grid and water-network resilience and of back-up power at critical facilities, together with the infrastructure investment gap.

IndicadorUnidadEvidenciaFuentesProporción
Resiliencia de la red eléctricaIND.INF.utilities.power_grid_resilience{score}Class Dnational-energy-regulators, transmission-system-operator-reports, entso-e-transparency25.0%
Resiliencia de la red de abastecimiento de aguaIND.INF.utilities.water_network_resilience{score}Class Eibnet-water-utility-database, national-water-regulators, municipal-utility-reports25.0%
Instalaciones críticas con energía de respaldo para 72 horasIND.INF.utilities.critical_facility_backup_power%Class Ewho-health-facility-assessments, national-civil-protection-inspections25.0%
Brecha de inversión en infraestructura, porcentaje del PIBIND.INF.utilities.infrastructure_investment_gap.gdp%Class Cgi-hub-infrastructure-outlook, wb-ppi-database, imf-investment-and-capital-stock-dataset25.0%

Electricity supply unreliability sub-index w 1

Composite of firm-reported outages and sales losses, SAIDI, SAIFI and network losses.

IndicadorUnidadEvidenciaFuentesProporción
Cortes de electricidad sufridos por las empresas en un mes típicoIND.ENE.reliability.firm_power_outages/moClass Bwb-enterprise-surveys, wb-b-ready22.2%
Valor perdido por cortes eléctricos, porcentaje de las ventas de las empresasIND.ENE.reliability.outage_sales_loss%Class Bwb-enterprise-surveys22.2%
Duración media de las interrupciones del sistema (SAIDI)IND.ENE.reliability.saidih/aClass Bwb-b-ready, national-energy-regulators, ceer-benchmarking-report, us-eia-86122.2%
Frecuencia media de las interrupciones del sistema (SAIFI)IND.ENE.reliability.saifi/aClass Bwb-b-ready, national-energy-regulators, ceer-benchmarking-report, us-eia-86122.2%
Pérdidas en la transmisión y distribución de electricidadIND.ENE.reliability.td_losses%Class Biea-electricity-information, national-energy-regulators, wb-wdi11.1%

Infrastructure disruption impact sub-index w 0.5

Composite of disaster damage to critical infrastructure, health and education facilities, basic-service disruptions, economic loss to infrastructure and internet disruption hours, normalised over a ten-year rolling window.

IndicadorUnidadEvidenciaFuentesProporción
Unidades de infraestructura crítica dañadas o destruidas por desastresIND.INF.disruption.critical_infrastructure_damage1Class Bundrr-sendai-framework-monitor, desinventar22.2%
Centros de salud dañados o destruidos por desastresIND.INF.disruption.health_facilities_damaged1Class Bundrr-sendai-framework-monitor, who-health-resources-availability-monitoring11.1%
Centros educativos dañados o destruidos por desastresIND.INF.disruption.education_facilities_damaged1Class Bundrr-sendai-framework-monitor, gadrrres-comprehensive-school-safety11.1%
Interrupciones de servicios básicos atribuidas a desastresIND.INF.disruption.basic_service_disruptions1Class Cundrr-sendai-framework-monitor22.2%
Pérdidas económicas directas en infraestructura crítica, porcentaje del PIBIND.INF.disruption.critical_infrastructure_loss.gdp%Class Cundrr-sendai-framework-monitor, wb-gfdrr-pdna-reports22.2%
Horas de interrupción de Internet a escala nacionalIND.INF.digital.internet_disruption_hoursh/aClass Dioda-georgia-tech, cloudflare-radar, access-now-keepiton11.1%
05Dominio

Infraestructura

Critical infrastructure stock, condition, service continuity, connectivity and urban systems.

Sub-domainIndicadores
Transport6
Digital connectivity5
Utilities7
Urban systems1
Service disruption5

Anchor frameworks (pillar structure and definitions only): Sendai D; ISO 37120 / 37122 / 37123.

06Indicadores

All 24 infrastructure indicators

FIG 4 · Indicators in scope, by domain and sub-domain
INF · 24
Area is the number of indicator definitions; colour is the pillar the domain feeds (Macroeconomy and Space feed through their indices). Select a block to filter the table. Source: Indicator Standard Nexus Indicator Standard register.
IndicadorDominioSub-domainComponenteUnidadNivelesCrosswalks
Población rural a menos de 2 km de una carretera transitable todo el añoIND.INF.transport.rural_road_accessINFTransportcoping capacity%COUNTRY, ADM1SDG 9.1.1
Desempeño logísticoIND.INF.transport.logistics_performanceINFTransportcoping capacity{score}COUNTRYWB_WDI LP.LPI.OVRL.XQ
Conectividad del transporte marítimo de línea respecto de la fronteraIND.INF.transport.liner_shipping_connectivityINFTransportcoping capacity%COUNTRYWB_WDI IS.SHP.GCNW.XQ
Pasajeros aéreos transportados per cápitaIND.INF.transport.air_passengers.pcINFTransportcoping capacity{passengers}/a/{person}COUNTRYWB_WDI IS.AIR.PSGR
Población urbana con acceso conveniente al transporte públicoIND.INF.transport.public_transport_accessINFTransportcoping capacity%CITY, ADM1, COUNTRYSDG 11.2.1 ISO_37120 ISO 37120:2018
Red vial y ferroviaria en zonas de alta amenaza, proporciónIND.INF.transport.network_exposed.shareINFTransportexposure%COUNTRY, ADM1, ADM2, CITY, GRID
Personas que usan InternetIND.INF.digital.internet_usersINFDigital connectivitycoping capacity%COUNTRY, ADM1, CITYSDG 17.8.1 WB_WDI IT.NET.USER.ZS
Población cubierta por una red móvil, por tecnologíaIND.INF.digital.mobile_network_coverageINFDigital connectivitycoping capacity%COUNTRY, ADM1SDG 9.c.1
Suscripciones de banda ancha fija por cada 100 habitantesIND.INF.digital.fixed_broadbandINFDigital connectivitycoping capacity/10*2COUNTRY, ADM1SDG 17.6.1 WB_WDI IT.NET.BBND.P2
Redundancia de rutas de conectividad internacionalIND.INF.digital.international_connectivity_redundancyINFDigital connectivitycoping capacity1COUNTRY
Horas de interrupción de Internet a escala nacionalIND.INF.digital.internet_disruption_hoursINFDigital connectivityimpacth/aCOUNTRY
Resiliencia de la red eléctricaIND.INF.utilities.power_grid_resilienceINFUtilitiescoping capacity{score}COUNTRY, ADM1, CITYISO_37123 ISO 37123:2019
Resiliencia de la red de abastecimiento de aguaIND.INF.utilities.water_network_resilienceINFUtilitiescoping capacity{score}COUNTRY, ADM1, CITYISO_37123 ISO 37123:2019
Instalaciones críticas con energía de respaldo para 72 horasIND.INF.utilities.critical_facility_backup_powerINFUtilitiescoping capacity%COUNTRY, ADM1, CITYISO_37123 ISO 37123:2019
Activos de abastecimiento de agua en zonas de alta amenaza, proporciónIND.INF.utilities.water_assets_exposed.shareINFUtilitiesexposure%COUNTRY, ADM1, ADM2, CITY, GRID
Activos de generación y red eléctrica en zonas de alta amenaza, proporciónIND.INF.utilities.power_assets_exposed.shareINFUtilitiesexposure%COUNTRY, ADM1, ADM2, CITY, GRID
Instalaciones vitales en zonas de alta amenaza, proporciónIND.INF.utilities.lifeline_facilities_exposed.shareINFUtilitiesexposure%COUNTRY, ADM1, ADM2, CITY, GRID
Brecha de inversión en infraestructura, porcentaje del PIBIND.INF.utilities.infrastructure_investment_gap.gdpINFUtilitiesvulnerability%COUNTRY
City electricity interruption hours per customerIND.INF.urban.power_interruption_hoursINFUrban systemsvulnerabilityh/aCITYISO_37120 ISO 37120:2018
Unidades de infraestructura crítica dañadas o destruidas por desastresIND.INF.disruption.critical_infrastructure_damageINFService disruptionimpact1COUNTRY, ADM1SENDAI D-1 SDG 11.5.2
Centros de salud dañados o destruidos por desastresIND.INF.disruption.health_facilities_damagedINFService disruptionimpact1COUNTRY, ADM1SENDAI D-2
Centros educativos dañados o destruidos por desastresIND.INF.disruption.education_facilities_damagedINFService disruptionimpact1COUNTRY, ADM1SENDAI D-3
Interrupciones de servicios básicos atribuidas a desastresIND.INF.disruption.basic_service_disruptionsINFService disruptionimpact1COUNTRY, ADM1SENDAI D-5
Pérdidas económicas directas en infraestructura crítica, porcentaje del PIBIND.INF.disruption.critical_infrastructure_loss.gdpINFService disruptionimpact%COUNTRY, ADM1SENDAI C-5
07Cita

Infrastructure fragility index, world

The world reading of this index, every country as a tile and the largest movements since the previous edition.

NXS-GRX · INF · 195 profiles · 0–10 scale
Infrastructure fragility index, world
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Los valores se publican con la edición; el intervalo, la clase y la variación aparecen aquí.
Edición anterior
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Range since 2016
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Compuesto acoplado
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Puntuación de acoplamiento S
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Pulso, última semana
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Outlook, 12 months
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Método
Indicator Standard 1.0 · NXS-GRX 2026
Extracciones
1,000
Infrastructure fragility index, world, by edition

Aún no hay valores publicados. La primera edición trazará aquí la serie histórica con su banda de intervalo y los límites de clase.

The line is the point value by edition; the band is the 90% interval; dashed lines are the class bounds at 2, 3.5, 5 and 6.5.
Aún no hay movimientos. A partir de la segunda edición, aquí se enumeran los cambios respecto de la edición anterior, con los indicadores que los provocaron.
08Valores

Country values

FIG 5 · Infrastructure fragility index: countries (values when released)
Cargando el mapa
AndorraAntigua y BarbudaBaréinBarbadosComorasCabo VerdeDominicaMicronesia (Estados Federados de)GranadaKiribatiSaint Kitts y NevisSanta LucíaLiechtensteinMónacoMaldivasIslas MarshallMaltaMauricioNauruPalaosSingapurSan MarinoSanto Tomé y PríncipeSeychellesTongaTuvaluSanta SedeSan Vicente y las GranadinasSamoa
Equal Earth · Natural Earth 1:110mValues when released
Until the first edition is released the map shows UN M49 regions or the Nexus Reports edition; it then shows this index’s classes with each country’s interval on hover. Countries are listed by name, never ordered by value.
Teselas
/api/v1/public/grix/risk-products/tiles/inf/{z}/{x}/{y}.mvt
Clave de observación
nis:IDX.INF.disruption.infrastructure_fragility:{ISO3}:{YEAR}:A
09Serie

Series that read this index

GLBGlobal SystemsThe state of interdependent global risk: the twenty domain indices aggregated to the world, the five core systems (water, energy, food, health, biodiversity) and their couplings, the global tail register and the gap between perceived and measured risk. GS-09Global InfrastructureInfrastructure fragility, service continuity, interdependency of power, water, transport and telecommunications, and investment exposure. GS-10Global CitiesUrban exposure, heat, flooding, informal settlement, service dependency and the economic weight of cities at risk. SR-10Digital public infrastructureIdentity, payments and data-exchange infrastructure as public goods, and their concentration, cyber and continuity risk. XT-03Telecommunications, open radio networks and edgeTelecom resilience, open and AI-native radio access networks, private wireless, edge compute and spectrum constraints. XT-06SemiconductorsSemiconductor supply concentration, fabrication chokepoints, materials and equipment dependency and export-control exposure. XT-08Drones, robotics and autonomous systemsAutonomous and robotic systems in logistics, agriculture, industry and security: failure, misuse and safety oversight. XT-09Sensors, IoT and industrial IoTConnected sensing and control across cities, utilities and industry: attack surface, data integrity and dependency. XT-12Positioning, navigation and timingDependency of power, telecom, finance and transport on positioning and timing signals; jamming, spoofing and space weather. TH-02Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)Hazard, exposure, vulnerability, capacity, preparedness, redundancy and recovery readings for planning and learning, aligned to the Sendai Framework targets.
10Validity

Crosswalks and validity checks

Crosswalks map leaf indicators to source code lists; established indices are used for validity checks, never re-weighted as inputs.

Code systemLeaf indicators mapped
WB_WDI8
SDG6
SENDAI5
ISO_371203
ISO_371233
11En todo el Nexus

Platforms, standards and ways to take part

Field and service platforms of GCRI, GRF and GRA, the Nexus Risk Standards for this domain, learning, working groups and open calls. Every link is a live page.

12Citar

Citar y reutilizar

GCRI Canada (2026). The Global Risks Index (NXS-GRX): Infrastructure fragility index (GRX-IDX-INF), Baseline Edition 2026. Preparatory working draft. https://risksindex.com/indices/infrastructure-fragility/ UNI NXS-GRX-AR-000127.

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