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(Source: UNISDR with data from national loss databases.)

Table 4.1 National disaster loss data for 85 countries and states4

this risk layer remained largely invisible. However, since 2007, a sustained effort to assist countries in systematically recording local disaster losses (UNISDR, 2009a

UNISDR. 2009a,Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Risk and Poverty in a Changing Climate, Geneva, Switzerland: UNISDR.. .

, 2011a, 2013a) has generated systematic and comparable evidence regarding the scale of extensive risk from over 80 countries (Box 4.2). Given that 95 per cent of these databases have been built using a comparable approach and methodology, it is possible to analyse these local records at a global level of observation.

Table 4.1 shows that 99.1 per cent of the local-level loss reports from these 85 countries and states are manifestations of extensive risk, with 96.4

per cent resulting from weather-related events. The economic losses from extensive disasters account for more than 45 per cent of total accumulated loss.

Across these countries, extensive disasters are responsible for only 14 per cent of total disaster mortality. However, since 1990 extensive mortality has increased almost fourfold in those countries that have consistent data spanning that period (Figure 4.3), and the trend is statistically significant.

(Source: UNISDR with data from national loss databases.)

Figure 4.3 Extensive mortality, 1990-2013 (65 countries, 2 states)5

	93 (Source: UNISDR with data from national loss databases.) Table 4.1 National disaster loss data for 85 countries and states4 this risk layer remained largely invisible. However, since 2007, a sustained effort to assist countries in systematically recording local disaster losses (UNISDR, 2009a x UNISDR. 2009a,Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Risk and Poverty in a Changing Climate, Geneva, Switzerland: UNISDR.. . , 2011a, 2013a) has generated systematic and comparable evidence regarding the scale of extensive risk from over 80 countries (Box 4.2). Given that 95 per cent of these databases have been built using a comparable approach and methodology, it is possible to analyse these local records at a global level of observation. Table 4.1 shows that 99.1 per cent of the local-level loss reports from these 85 countries and states are manifestations of extensive risk, with 96.4 per cent resulting from weather-related events. The economic losses from extensive disasters account for more than 45 per cent of total accumulated loss. Across these countries, extensive disasters are responsible for only 14 per cent of total disaster mortality. However, since 1990 extensive mortality has increased almost fourfold in those countries that have consistent data spanning that period (Figure 4.3), and the trend is statistically significant. (Source: UNISDR with data from national loss databases.) Figure 4.3 Extensive mortality, 1990-2013 (65 countries, 2 states)5	Page 1 Page 10 Page 20 Page 30 Page 40 Page 50 Page 60 Page 70 Page 80 Page 83 Page 84 Page 85 Page 86 Page 87 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 110 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