Disaster statistics reports

While absolute economic losses are concentrated in high-income countries, the human cost of disasters falls overwhelmingly on low and middle-income countries. This is a list of key reports with disaster statistics.

Learn more about the role of disaster losses and statistics in DRR.

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UNDRR report published to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on October 13, 2020, confirms how extreme weather events have come to dominate the disaster landscape in the 21st century.

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Documents and publications

In 2019, 396 natural disasters were recorded with 11,755 deaths, 95 million people affected and 103 billion US$1 in economic losses across the world.

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
Documents and publications

This report reviews the state of the food crises in countries worldwide.

Food Security Information Network (FSIN)
Global Network Against Food Crises
Documents and publications

This document provides a review of disaster deaths, economic losses, human impacts and the worst affected countries in 2019.

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
Université Catholique de Louvain
Documents and publications

The European State of the Climate (ESOTC) is an annual report. It provides an analysis of the monitoring for Europe for the past calendar year, with descriptions of climate conditions and events.

European Commission
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Copernicus Climate Change Service
Documents and publications

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center's (IDMC) Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is the official repository of data and analysis on internal displacement.

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
Documents and publications

This year’s Global Report on Internal Displacement highlights the many challenges, but also opportunities, that cities face today when dealing with internal displacement.

Norwegian Refugee Council
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
Documents and publications

This information supports humanitarian and development actors to plan and fund evidence-based responses, while using the data to seek high-level political action for durable solutions to food crises.

World Food Programme
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters
International Food Policy Research Institute
Food Security Information Network (FSIN)

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