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During the decade:
Medium human development countries accounted for almost 89 per cent of
the total number of people reported affected by disasters but for 97 per cent
of those affected by earthquakes / tsunamis, 95 per cent of people affected by
floods, 94 per cent of those affected by extreme temperature and 93 per cent
of those affected by windstorms.
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 annex.
Low human development countries accounted for almost 8 per cent of the
total number of people reported affected by disasters but for 54 per cent of
those affected by transport accidents and 21 per cent of people affected by
droughts / food insecurities.
2 Includes waves and surges.
3 Landslides, rockfalls, subsidence of geophysical origin.
4 Landslides, avalanches, subsidence of hydrological origin.
High human development countries for 2 per cent of the total number of people
reported affected by disasters but for 54 per cent of those affected by industrial
accidents, 47 per cent of those affected by wild fires and 44 per cent of people
affected by volcanic eruptions.
Note: ’n.a.’ signifies ’no data available’; ’n.d.r.’ signifies ’no disaster reported’.
For more information, see section on caveats in introductory text.
Very high human development countries countries for 1 per cent of the total
number of people reported affected by disasters but for 46 per cent of those
affected by wild fires.
World Disasters Report 2010 – Disaster data
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