GAR 2015 Main Report

Part I - Chapter 4

Notes

1 A new analysis of national disaster loss data shows that between 1980 and 2013, 41 countries reported a total of more than 6,000 events involving electrical storms which killed more than 8,700 people, injured around 4,500 people and destroyed almost 42,000 houses.
2 http://www.desenredando.org/public/libros/1999/edete/.
3 For more information on national loss databases and the data sets used in this report, see www.desinventar.net.
4 82 countries and 3 states (Odisha and Tamil Nadu, India, and Zanzibar, Tanzania) in total over varying time frames. For access to the loss databases and more details on the countries and states included, see www.desinventar.net.
5 The two states referred to in Figures 4.3, 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 are Odisha and Tamil Nadu, India.
6 Only a very small group of countries show an increasing trend that can be associated with improved reporting, but the population of those countries (and the impact reported) is low in comparison to the majority of countries with loss databases. The group with low reporting bias accounts for more than 95 per cent of the population represented (1.6 billion) and 74 per cent of all reports in the sample. Reports of mortality impacts show similarly stable patterns, and reports on other types of impacts show slightly higher trends which suggest that better reporting should be taken as one of the causes of the increase, but with a moderate to low influence. See Annex 2 for more details.
7 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) of 2013.
8 Data from the World Bank Development Indicators: http://data. worldbank.org/.
9 Public investment was calculated as an average of the annual percentage of public investment in relation to GDP from 2001 to 2011, based on data from the World Bank.

Increases in extensive risk threaten efforts to reduce poverty and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals related to poverty and social development, and they highlight that understanding and practising disaster risk reduction as disaster management has not been effective in avoiding risk generation and accumulation. This theme will be explored further in Parts II and III of this report.

	98 Part I - Chapter 4 Notes 1 A new analysis of national disaster loss data shows that between 1980 and 2013, 41 countries reported a total of more than 6,000 events involving electrical storms which killed more than 8,700 people, injured around 4,500 people and destroyed almost 42,000 houses. 2 http://www.desenredando.org/public/libros/1999/edete/. 3 For more information on national loss databases and the data sets used in this report, see www.desinventar.net. 4 82 countries and 3 states (Odisha and Tamil Nadu, India, and Zanzibar, Tanzania) in total over varying time frames. For access to the loss databases and more details on the countries and states included, see www.desinventar.net. 5 The two states referred to in Figures 4.3, 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 are Odisha and Tamil Nadu, India. 6 Only a very small group of countries show an increasing trend that can be associated with improved reporting, but the population of those countries (and the impact reported) is low in comparison to the majority of countries with loss databases. The group with low reporting bias accounts for more than 95 per cent of the population represented (1.6 billion) and 74 per cent of all reports in the sample. Reports of mortality impacts show similarly stable patterns, and reports on other types of impacts show slightly higher trends which suggest that better reporting should be taken as one of the causes of the increase, but with a moderate to low influence. See Annex 2 for more details. 7 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) of 2013. 8 Data from the World Bank Development Indicators: http://data. worldbank.org/. 9 Public investment was calculated as an average of the annual percentage of public investment in relation to GDP from 2001 to 2011, based on data from the World Bank. Increases in extensive risk threaten efforts to reduce poverty and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals related to poverty and social development, and they highlight that understanding and practising disaster risk reduction as disaster management has not been effective in avoiding risk generation and accumulation. This theme will be explored further in Parts II and III of this report.	Page 1 Page 10 Page 20 Page 30 Page 40 Page 50 Page 60 Page 70 Page 80 Page 88 Page 89 Page 90 Page 91 Page 92 Page 93 Page 94 Page 95 Page 96 Page 97 Page 98 Page 99 ->Page 100 Page 101 Page 102 Page 103 Page 104 Page 105 Page 106 Page 107 Page 108 Page 109 Page 110 Page 111 Page 112 Page 120 Page 130 Page 140 Page 150 Page 160 Page 170 Page 180 Page 190 Page 200 Page 210 Page 220 Page 230 Page 240 Page 250 Page 260 Page 270 Page 280 Page 290 Page 300 Page 310