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Table 2 Total number of people reported killed, by continent, by year and by level of human development (2000 to 2009)
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Total
Africa 5,392 4,520 7,639 6,160 4,246 3,184 5,789 3,695 3,039 3,142 46,806
Americas 2,066 3,077 2,108 2,082 8,437 5,438 1,558 2,921 2,730 2,160 32,577
Asia 88,056 105,960 89,427 39,030 238,404 90,796 20,634 15,581 235,618 9,744 933,250
Europe 1,622 2,338 1,810 73,373 1,259 1,044 5,837 1,665 787 1,319 91,054
Oceania 205 9 91 64 35 46 24 273 25 893 1,665
Very high human
1,518 1,433 1,431 72,889 1,102 2,925 4,152 1,017 883 2,090 89,440
development
High human development 2,478 2,905 2,843 2,983 2,572 1,961 2,707 3,182 1,589 2,804 26,024
Medium human
15,049 33,643 16,085 43,446 247,165 93,414 24,318 17,391 237,373 11,000 738,884
development
Low human development 78,296 77,923 80,716 1,391 1,542 2,208 2,665 2,545 2,354 1,364 251,004
Total 97,341 115,904 101,075 120,709 252,381 100,508 33,842 24,135 242,199 17,258 1,105,352
Source: EM-DAT, CRED, University of Louvain, Belgium
The number of people reported dead was also the lowest of the decade in
countries of medium and low human development.
The deadliest disaster in 2009 was an earthquake in southern Sumatra
(Indonesia), which caused 1,117 deaths. This figure is far below the death
tolls caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 (226,408 deaths), Cyclone
Nargis in Myanmar in 2008 (138,366 deaths) and earthquakes in Sichuan,
China in 2008 (87,476 deaths), Kashmir in 2005 (73,338 deaths) Bam, Iran
in 2003 (26,796 deaths) and Gujurat, India in 2001 (20,005 deaths).
See note on UNDP’s Human Development Index country status in the section on
disaster definitions in the introduction to this annex.
In 2009 the number of people reported killed was the lowest of the decade, far
below the decade’s average of 110,535.
On the other hand, in Oceania, the number of people killed largely surpassed
its peaks of 2000 and 2007.
In 2009, 56 per cent of people killed by disasters lived in Asia, far below the
decade’s average of 84 per cent.
Inversely the proportions of people killed in Africa (18 per cent), in the Americas
(13 per cent) and in Oceania (5 per cent) were significantly higher than their
decade’s average (4, 3 and 0.2 per cent, respectively).
World Disasters Report 2010 – Disaster data
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