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India - Disaster Statistics

Data related to human and economic losses from disasters that have occurred between 1980 and 2008.

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Natural Disasters from 1980 - 2008


Overview

No of events: 395
No of people killed: 139,393
Average killed per year: 4,807
No of people affected: 1,506,794,740
Average affected per year: 51,958,439
Ecomomic Damage (US$ X 1,000): 45,184,830
Ecomomic Damage per year (US$ X 1,000): 1,558,098


Natural Disaster Occurence Reported



Average Disaster Per Year

Drought: 0.21
Earthquake*: 0.55
Epidemic: 1.90
Extreme temp: 1.17
Flood: 5.79
Insect infestation: 0.03
Mass mov. dry: 0.03
Mass mov. wet: 1.07
Volcano: ...
Storm: 2.79
Wildfire: 0.07




Top 10 Natural Disasters Reported


Affected People

Disaster Date Affected (no. of people)
Drought 1987 300,000,000
Drought 2002 300,000,000
Flood 1993 128,000,000
Drought 1982 100,000,000
Drought 2000 50,000,000
Flood 2002 42,000,000
Flood 1982 33,500,000
Flood 2004 33,000,000
Flood 1995 32,704,000
Flood 1980 30,000,023

Killed People

Disaster Date Killed (no. of people)
Earthquake* 2001 20,005
Earthquake* 2004 16,389
Storm 1999 9,843
Earthquake* 1993 9,748
Epidemic 1984 3,290
Epidemic 1988 3,000
Storm 1998 2,871
Extreme temp. 1998 2,541
Flood 1994 2,001
Flood 1998 1,811

Economic Damages

Disaster Date Cost (US$ X 1,000)
Flood 1993 7,000,000
Flood 2006 3,390,000
Flood 2005 3,330,000
Earthquake* 2001 2,623,000
Storm 1999 2,500,000
Flood 2004 2,500,000
Flood 2005 2,300,000
Storm 1990 2,200,000
Storm 1996 1,500,300
Earthquake* 2004 1,022,800



Statistics Per Event


Killed People

Drought: 53.33
Earthquake*: 3,108.19
Epidemic: 274.78
Extreme temp: 320.56
Flood: 225.01
Insect infestation: ...
Mass mov. dry: 45.00
Mass mov. wet: 90.26
Volcano: ...
Storm: 279.99
Wildfire: 3.00

Affected People

Drought: 125,195,833.33
Earthquake*: 1,741,700.25
Epidemic: 7,205.18
Extreme temp: 6.62
Flood: 4,005,617.70
Insect infestation: ...
Mass mov. dry: ...
Mass mov. wet: 123,677.55
Volcano: ...
Storm: 624,422.81
Wildfire: ...

Economic Damages

Drought: 340,187.00
Earthquake*: 318,893.75
Epidemic: ...
Extreme temp: 16,000.00
Flood: 164,938.27
Insect infestation: ...
Mass mov. dry: ...
Mass mov. wet: 1,758.06
Volcano: ...
Storm: 120,139.25
Wildfire: 1,000.00


Statistics By Disasters Type





*: Including tsunami


More information and data on: www.emdat.be/

Source of data: "EM-DAT: The OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Bel."
Data version: v11.08

Data displayed does not imply national endorsement