Executive Summary Of the 1.35 million people killed by natural hazards over the past 20 years, more than half died in earthquakes, with the remainder due to weather- and climate related hazards. The...
Georeferencing the footprint of natural disasters The Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) contains data about the occurrence and impact of natural and technological disasters that have taken place...
Abstract Objective To determine whether pre-emptive oral cholera vaccination reduces disease severity and mortality in people who develop cholera during an outbreak. Methods The study involved a...
Over the last twenty years, the overwhelming majority (90%) of disasters have been caused by floods, storms, heatwaves and other weather-related events. In total, 6,457 weather-related disasters were...
Natural disasters1 in 2015 In 2015, 346 natural disasters were recorded in the EM-DAT database. They claimed 22,773 lives, affected over 98 million others and caused economic damages of US$66.5...
346 reported disasters 22 773 people dead 98.6 million people affected US$66.5 billion economic damage
Chiara Altare, Tefera Darge Delbiso and Debarati Guha-Sapir Abstract Child undernutrition is a major public health concern in Ethiopia (stunting national prevalence: 44%; wasting: 10%), despite the...
20-YEAR REVIEW SHOWS 90% OF DISASTERS ARE WEATHER-RELATED; US, CHINA, INDIA, PHILIPPINES AND INDONESIA RECORD THE MOST 23 November 2015, GENEVA – A new report issued today by the UN, “The Human Cost...
Peter Heudtlass, Niko Speybroeck, Debarati Guha-Sapir Institut de Recherche Santé et Société (IRSS), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium Summary Points • Forced migrants are an...
Executive Summary In 2014, 324 triggered natural disasters1 were registered. It was the third lowest number of reported disasters in the last decade, below the annual average disaster frequency...