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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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The FAO flagship report on ‘The Impact of Disasters on Agriculture and Food Security’ provides a timely and comprehensive overview of how disasters are affecting agriculture and food security around the world.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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This report provides an account of the number and type of disasters that occurred in 2022, how many people were killed and affected and what were the economic losses.

Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management
National Disaster Reduction Centre of China
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Beijing Normal University
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The report on the State of the Climate in Asia 2022 is the result of collaboration between NMHSs in the region, the UN ESCAP, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and other specialized agencies of the United Nations.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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The report provides the status of key climate indicators using the WMO and partner organisations operational monitoring systems and latest data and information on impacts, risks and policy from United Nations agencies.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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IDMC's Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) is the world’s most trusted source of data and analysis on the risk, scale and impacts of internal displacement.

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
Norwegian Refugee Council
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The Global Report on Food Crises 2023, produced by the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) in support to the Global Network against Food Crises (GNAFC).

Food Security Information Network (FSIN)
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The publication provides a summary on the state of the climate indicators in 2022 including global temperatures trends and its distribution around the globe.

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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This CRED Crunch newsletter details the disaster-related events of 2022. During this period, the Emergency Event Database EM-DAT recorded 387 natural hazards worldwide resulting in the loss of 30,704 lives and affecting 185 million individuals

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)