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India is the fifth most vulnerable country globally to climate change, according to a new analysis released on 4 December 2019. India has also recorded the highest number of fatalities due to climate change and the second highest monetary losses from its impact in 2018. The Global Climate Risk Index 2020, published by environmental think tank Germanwatch which assessed 181 countries and quantified impacts of climate change through economic losses, losses to GDP and fatalities to arrive at a ranking, found Japan to be the most vulnerable followed by Philippines, Germany, Madagascar and India. The southwest monsoon in 2018 severely affected India, the analysis said adding that Kerala was especially impacted where 324 people died because of drowning or being buried in the landslides set off by the flooding the worst in hundred years.