2005 disasters in numbers

Top 10
Natural disasters by number of deaths - 2005
Earthquake, October Pakistan 73 338
Hurricane Stan, October Guatemala 1 513
Hurricane Katrina, August United States 1 322
Earthquake, October India 1 309
Flood, July India 1 200
Earthquake, March Indonesia 915
Flood, June China, P Rep 771
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Time trend of natural
Earthquake, February Iran, Islam Rep
Measles Epidemic Nigeria 561 disasters, 1975-2005*
600
Flood, February Pakistan 520

Victims (killed and affected) of 500

Countries most hit by natural disasters per 100,000
natural disasters - 2005 inhabitants - 2005
China P Rep 31 Comoros 42 512 400
India 30 Malawi 37 376
United States 16 Guyana 35 909 300
Afghanistan 13 Niger 30 863
Bangladesh 12 Cuba 22 914
200
Pakistan 11 Albania 11 240
Vietnam, Indonesia, Romania 10 Zambia 10 666
Iran (Islam Rep), Russia 9 Djibouti 9 859 100
Haiti 8 Kenya 7 497
Mexico, Turkey 7 Mozambique 7 461 0
1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
*: Natural disasters = Country-level disasters

Annual reported economic damages from natural disasters: 1975-2005

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Earthquake Kobé
Japan
Windstorms Katrina and Rita
150 ($121 billion)
In current billion US$

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($131billion)

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France
100 ($12 billion)
Flood Volgograd Earthquake Niigata
Russia Flood Japan
($18 billion) China ($28 billion )
Earthquake Naples Province
Italy ($35 billion)
50 ($47 billion)

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Selected disasters with largest economic impact

Human impact by disaster types:
comparison 2004-2005
2004-2005
Total affected Total Killed
56 062 367 4 672
Wind Storm
16 382 903 6 513

6 907 47
20 519
Wild Fires
14

Wave / Surge
2 431 807 (Including tsunami) 226 435

332 000 3
52 533 Volcano 2

8 352 649
Slides 357
12 730

74 285 072 6 135

116 990 371
Flood 6 957

1 596 Extreme 923

2 139 880 Temperature 239

105 269 3 144

Epidemic
149 156 3 177

3 928 292 76 241

Earthquake
715 592 882

22 782 083 149

11 541 000
Drought
1

157 511 938 91 963

150 436 491
Total 244 577

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2004 2005

Natural disaster occurrence by disaster type: Percentage of people killed

comparison 2004-2005* by natural disaster category:
400

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2004 and 2005
350
Hydrometeorological
305 6.1%
300
Biological
1.3%
250
2004

200 Geological (Including tsunami)

92.6%
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Hydrometeorological
81 13.7%
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16 12
2005 Biological
15 8 10 3.4%
7 7 2 5 7 2
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Drought Earthquake Epidemic Extreme Flood Insect Slides Volcano Wave / Surge Wild Fires Wind Storm Total
Temperature infectation (Including tsunami) Geological (Including tsunami)
82.9%
2004 2005 *: Natural disasters = Event Disasters

International Strategy
International Strategy for Centre for Research on the Epidemiology Source of data: EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED
ISDR
for Disaster Reduction
Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) of Disasters (CRED), Department of Public Health International Disaster Database
Tel: +41 22 9172529/762/759 Université catholique de Louvain www.em-dat.net
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