The year 2016 was filled with challenges across the globe.Natural disasters, political upheaval andterror attacks were among the most prominent challenges. Withthe number of challenges likely to expand in 2017, businesses needto know how they can overcome future disruptions across theworld.

The 2017 FM Global Resilience Index ranks 130countries and territories by three factors: economic, supplychain and risk index. Each factor is based on four drivers influencing eachfactor. These combine to form the composite index, whichis the basis of each countries score and rank. Scores arebound on a scale of 0 to 100, with 0 representing the lowestresilience and 100 being the highest.

FM Global's index includes three new drivers: inherent cyberrisk, urbanization rate and supply chain visibility. The firstreflects a country's vulnerability to a cyber attack and itsability to recover. The second serves as an evaluation of types ofinfrastructure which would be stressed following a naturaldisaster. The final driver reflects the ability to track and traceshipments across a country's supply chain.