Disaster statistics reports

While absolute economic losses are concentrated in high-income countries, the human cost of disasters falls overwhelmingly on low and middle-income countries. This is a list of key reports with disaster statistics.

Learn more about the role of disaster losses and statistics in DRR.

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The publication provides a summary on the state of the climate indicators in 2022 including global temperatures trends and its distribution around the globe.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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Documents and publications

This CRED Crunch newsletter details the disaster-related events of 2022. During this period, the Emergency Event Database EM-DAT recorded 387 natural hazards worldwide resulting in the loss of 30,704 lives and affecting 185 million individuals

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
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This report presents the disaster impacts of 2022.

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
Université Catholique de Louvain
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
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Documents and publications

The World Disaster Report 2022 is an annual publication by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) that provides a comprehensive overview of the humanitarian challenges faced by communities around the world.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
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Documents and publications

This report contains information on rainfall, air temperature and humidity, soil water availability, river flows and storage in lakes in 2022. Trends in the water cycle and some of the most important hydrological events of 2022 are interpreted.

Global Water Monitor
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Documents and publications

This seventh biennial State of the Climate report draws on the latest national and international climate research, encompassing observations, analyses and future projections to describe year-to-year variability & longer-term changes in Australia’s climate

Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)
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Documents and publications

This report provides a summary of the state of climate, extreme events and their socio-economic impacts in Asia region in 2021.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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Documents and publications

The State of the Climate in Europe report provides information on rising temperatures, land and marine heatwaves, extreme weather, changing precipitation patterns and retreating ice and snow.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Copernicus Climate Change Service

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