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Table 8 Total amount of disaster estimated damage, by type of phenomenon and by year (2000 to 2009) – in millions of US
dollars (2009 prices)
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Total
Droughts / food insecurity 5,107 2,787 9,884 863 1,700 2,149 3,337 524 216 245 26,811
Earthquakes / tsunamis 514 8,920 2,466 9,622 43,844 7,366 3,652 15,492 85,491 6,059 183,425
Extreme temperatures 461 242 n.a. 14,598 n.a. 439 1,064 n.a. 21,862 1,131 39,798
Floods1 32,148 5,757 31,990 24,152 11,965 19,707 8,307 25,181 19,655 7,723 186,584
Forest / scrub fires 3,188 109 432 7,107 3 4,226 893 4,757 2,421 1,515 24,651
Insect infestation 150 n.a. n.d.r. n.d.r. n.a. n.d.r. n.d.r. n.d.r. n.d.r. n.a. 150
Mass movement: dry2 n.a. n.d.r. n.a. n.d.r. n.a. n.d.r. n.a. n.d.r. n.a. n.a. n.a.
Mass movement: wet3 576 86 230 61 4 60 43 n.a. n.a. 154 1,212
Volcanic eruptions 3 20 11 n.a. n.a. n.a. 160 n.a. n.a. n.a. 193
Windstorms 15,523 17,589 17,597 24,874 95,616 202,996 18,839 30,584 60,457 24,641 508,717
Subtotal climato-, hydro- &
57,152 26,570 60,132 71,655 109,289 229,577 32,482 61,045 104,612 35,409 787,923
meteorological disasters
Subtotal geophysical
517 8,940 2,477 9,622 43,844 7,366 3,811 15,492 85,491 6,059 183,618
disasters
Total natural disasters 57,669 35,510 62,609 81,277 153,133 236,943 36,293 76,537 190,102 41,468 971,541
Industrial accidents n.a. 12 11,878 n.a. 1,022 450 n.a. 899 n.a. 6 14,268
Miscellaneous accidents 326 6 74 n.a. n.a. 11 1 n.a. n.a. n.a. 418
Transport accidents n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 463 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 463
Total technological
326 18 11,952 n.a. 1,486 462 1 899 n.a. 6 15,150
disasters
Total 57,995 35,528 74,561 81,277 154,619 237,404 36,295 77,436 190,102 41,474 986,691
Source: EM-DAT, CRED, University of Louvain, Belgium
The costliest disasters of the decade were windstorms (51.6 per cent), floods
(19 per cent) and earthquakes / tsunamis (18.5 per cent).
In 2009, hydrometeorological disasters accounted for 85 per cent of reported
damages, with windstorms accounting for 59 per cent.
Damages reported for droughts and floods were the second lowest of the
decade.
The proportion of damages attributable, in 2009, to windstorms (59 per cent
1 Includes waves and surges.
2 Landslides, rockfalls, subsidence of geophysical origin.
3 Landslides, avalanches, subsidence of hydrological origin.
Note: ’n.a.’ denotes ‘no data available’; ’n.d.r.’ denotes ‘no disaster reported’.
For more information, see section on caveats in introductory text.
Estimates of disaster damage must be treated with caution, as the financial
value attached to infrastructures in developed countries is much higher than
in developing countries. While reporting is better for large disasters, the low
reporting rates of direct damage make analysis difficult.
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of reported damages) was higher than their decennial average (52 per cent).
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