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Tsunami - Data and statistics

A 'pre-designed' summary and profile of disasters reported for a particular hazard including a summary of events from 1980 to September 2008 , as well as the top 10 disasters.

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

Please see also Tsunami Risk profile

Tsunami disasters from 1980 - 2008

Overview

No of events: 18
No of people killed: 229,551
Average people killed per year: 7,916
No of people affected: 2,481,879
Average people affected per year: 85,582
Ecomomic Damage (US$ X 1,000): 10,046,000
Ecomomic Damage per year (US$ X 1,000): 346,414

Top 10 Disasters Reported


Affected people

Disaster Date Affected (no. of people)
Sri Lanka 2004 1,019,306
India 2004 654,512
Indonesia 2004 532,898
Somalia 2004 105,083
Thailand 2004 67,007
Indonesia 2006 35,543
Maldives 2004 27,214
Myanmar 2004 15,700
Papua New Guinea 1998 9,867
Malaysia 2004 5,063

Killed people

Disaster Date Killed (no. of people)
Indonesia 2004 165,708
Sri Lanka 2004 35,399
India 2004 16,389
Thailand 2004 8,345
Papua New Guinea 1998 2,182
Indonesia 2006 802
Somalia 2004 298
Maldives 2004 102
Vanuatu 1997 100
Malaysia 2004 80

Economic damages

Disaster Date Cost (US$ X 1,000)
Indonesia 2004 4,451,600
Sri Lanka 2004 1,316,500
India 2004 1,022,800
Thailand 2004 1,000,000
Bangladesh 2004 500,000
Malaysia 2004 500,000
Myanmar 2004 500,000
Maldives 2004 470,100
Kenya 2004 100,000
Somalia 2004 100,000

Statistics for tsunami


Number of events reported


Number of people affected


Number of people killed


Reported economic damages (US$ in billion)

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