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Global number of reported natural disasters by the number of deaths
The number of disaster events reported in the EM-DAT disaster database, broken down by the size of the event, in terms of deaths. There has been an increase in the number of the smallest events – with over 200 deaths – at least partly due to improvements in recording over time.
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EM-DAT, CRED / UCLouvain (2026)
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