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View our work on COVID-19 vaccinationsNumber left homeless from natural disasters, All natural disasters, 1900 to 2019
Global number of people left homeless from natural disaster events. This is defined as "number of people whose house is destroyed or heavily damaged and therefore
need shelter after an event."
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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 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 affected by natural disasters
- 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)