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Nearly 150,000 Indians have died in the past 51 years because of extreme weather: WMO
Extreme weather, climate and water-related events caused nearly 12, 000 disasters worldwide between 1970 and 2021
Some 138,377 Indians died between 1970 and 2021 in 573 climate-related disasters, the second-highest number in Asia after Bangladesh, a new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) showed on May 22, 2023.
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The numbers were part of updated data in the WMO’s Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water-related hazards. The figures were released even as the World Meteorological Congress, the supreme body of the WMO, started its quadrennial session on May 22.
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‘Two million deaths’
The WMO also revealed that extreme weather, climate and water-related events caused 11,778 reported disasters between 1970 and 2021, with just over 2 million deaths and $4.3 trillion in economic losses.
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Between 1970 and 2021, the region accounted for 46 per cent of reported economic losses worldwide. The United States alone incurred $1.7 trillion, accounting for 39 per cent of losses worldwide in the 51 years.
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