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View our work on COVID-19 vaccinationsNumber of people affected by natural disasters, 1900 to 2019
Global number of people affected by natural disasters. This is defined as "people requiring immediate assistance during a period of emergency, i.e. requiring basic
survival needs such as food, water, shelter, sanitation and immediate medical assistance."
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- Accumulated Cyclone Energy of North Atlantic hurricanes
- Annual Heat Wave Index in the United States
- Average acres burned per wildfire in the United States
- Death rate from natural disasters
- Death rates from natural disasters
- Deaths from natural disasters as a share of total deaths
- Decadal average: Death rates from natural disasters
- Decadal average: Number of deaths from natural disasters
- Direct disaster economic loss
- Direct disaster economic loss as a share of GDP
- Direct economic loss attributed to disasters
- Disaster risk reduction progress score (1-5 scale; 5=best)
- Drought Severity Index
- Economic damage by natural disaster type
- Fatality rates due to lightning in the US
- Fatality rates in the US due to weather events
- Frequency of North Atlantic hurricanes
- Global damage costs from natural disasters
- Global deaths from natural disasters
- Global disaster losses as a share of GDP
- Global economic losses from disasters as a share of GDP
- Global injuries from natural disasters
- Global natural disaster death rates
- Global number affected by natural disasters
- Global precipitation anomaly
- Global reported natural disasters by type
- Global weather disaster losses as a share of GDP
- How many deaths does it take for a disaster in different continents to receive news coverage?
- How many deaths does it take for a disaster to receive news coverage?
- Hurricane landfalls in the United States
- Intensity error
- Internally displaced persons from natural disasters
- Natural disaster deaths by country
- News coverage of disasters
- News coverage of disasters, by continent
- Number left homeless from natural disasters
- Number of deaths and missing persons due to natural disasters
- Number of deaths from earthquakes
- Number of deaths from natural disasters
- Number of deaths from natural disasters by type
- Number of deaths from volcanic eruptions
- Number of known significant earthquakes
- Number of local governments that adopt disaster risk reduction strategies
- Number of people directly affected by natural disasters
- Number of recorded natural disaster events
- Number of significant volcanic eruptions
- Number of wildfires in the United States
- Power Dissipation Index (PDI) of North Atlantic cyclones
- Precipitation anomaly in the United States
- Score of adoption and implementation of national strategies in line with Sendai framework
- Score of adoption of legislative and/or regulatory provisions for managing disaster risk
- Share of US land area that experienced extreme one-day precipitation
- Share of US land area with unusually high annual precipitation
- Share of US land area with unusually high summer temperatures
- Share of US land area with unusually low winter temperatures
- Share of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies
- Track error
- Wildfire acres burned in the United States
- Wildfire acres burned in the United States (not comparable)