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During the decade:
Medium human development countries accounted for 67 per cent of the total
number of reported deaths but for almost all deaths from earthquakes, 96 per
cent of deaths due to windstorms, 86 per cent of those caused by industrial
accidents and 79 per cent of deaths from floods.
1 VHHD stands for very high human development, HHD stands for high human
development, MHD for medium human development and LHD for low human
development.
See note on UNDP’s Human Development Index country status in the section on
disaster definitions in the introduction to this chapterannex.
Low human development countries accounted for 23 per cent of the total
number of reported deaths but almost all deaths were caused by droughts / food
insecurity and 89 per cent of deaths following a volcanic eruption.
2 Includes waves and surges.
3 Landslides, rockfalls, subsidence of geophysical origin.
Very high human development countries accounted for 8 per cent of the total
number of reported deaths, but for 67 per cent of deaths from wild fires.
4 Landslides, avalanches, subsidence of hydrological origin.
High human development countries accounted for 2 per cent of the total number
of reported deaths but for 22 per cent of deaths from miscellaneous accidents
and for 14 per cent of those from transport accidents.
Note: ’n.a.’ signifies ’no data available’; ’n.d.r.’ signifies ’no disaster reported’.
For more information, see section on caveats in introductory text.
World Disasters Report 2010 – Disaster data
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