The number of deaths from natural disasters can be highly variable from year to year; some years pass with very few deaths before a large disaster event claims many lives… See more

Human impacts from natural disasters are not fully captured in mortality rates. Injury, homelessness, and displacement can all have a significant impact on populations. The visuali… See more

Landslides
This visualization – sourced from the NASA Socioeconomic Data And Applications Center (SEDAC) – shows the distribution of mortality ris… See more

Global disaster costs
Natural disasters not only have devastating impacts in terms of the loss of human life but can also cause severe destruction with economic c… See more

One of the major successes over the past century has been the dramatic decline in global deaths from natural disasters – this is despite the fact that the human populationh… See more