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Disaster statistics reports

While absolute economic losses are concentrated in high-income countries, the human cost of disasters falls overwhelmingly on low and middle-income countries. This is a list of key reports with disaster statistics.

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State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2025 thumbnail
Documents and publications

The State of the Climate in the Latin America and Caribbean report provides details of extreme weather and climate change impacts in the entire region, from the Amazon to the Andes, and from coastal waters to snowy peaks

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
2026 Global report on internal displacement thumbnail
Documents and publications

The Global Report on Internal Displacement 2026, published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), examines displacement trends across 146 countries and territories affected by conflict, violence and disasters.

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
European state of the climate report 2025 thumbnail
Documents and publications

ECMWF and WMO report highlights impacts of climate change on people and biodiversity across the fastest-warming continent

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
The 2026 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: narrowing window for decisive health action thumbnail
Documents and publications

The report features seven new indicators, methodological updates, extended time series for existing indicators, and highlights inequalities in health risks and impacts where possible.

The Lancet Public Health
2026 Global report on food crises thumbnail
Documents and publications

The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2026 reveals that acute food insecurity and malnutrition remain at alarmingly high and deeply entrenched levels, with crises increasingly concentrated in a core group of countries.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
2025 disasters in numbers: Earth, wind and fire thumbnail
Documents and publications

This publication of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters reports on the 2025 disaster events.

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)
2026 Climate and Catastrophe Insight thumbnail
Documents and publications

The 2026 Climate and Catastrophe Insight shows that 2025 was a paradoxical year as global disaster activity was relatively subdued, yet losses were highly concentrated and costly.

Aon Benfield
Gallagher Re natural catastrophe and climate report 2025 thumbnail
Documents and publications

This annual report summarizes preliminary global loss totals and major catastrophe events that occurred throughout 2025.

Gallagher Re