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Strictly under embargo until Wednesday 22 September at 00:01 GMT (02:01 Geneva time)166ANNEX 1Table 1 Total number of reported disasters, 1 by continent, by year and by level of human development (2000 to 2009)2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Total 2Africa 202 184 197 170 164 170 200 181 168 146 1,782Americas 151 134 156 126 137 139 103 133 144 111 1,334Asia 303 295 310 294 318 359 304 257 238 225 2,903Europe 130 96 115 96 98 127 98 104 57 75 996Oceania 13 18 19 20 22 16 18 11 13 19 169Very high humandevelopment131 114 132 115 106 111 98 95 85 78 1,065High human development 156 125 143 124 149 145 109 132 99 107 1,289Medium humandevelopment454 415 450 399 422 468 420 365 362 318 4,073Low human development 58 73 72 68 62 87 96 94 74 73 757Total 799 727 797 706 739 811 723 686 620 576 7,184Source: EM-DAT, CRED, University of Louvain, Belgium1In Tables 1–13,’disasters’ refer to those with a natural and/or technologicaltrigger only, and do not include wars, conflict-related famines, diseases orepidemics.2Since slow-onset disasters can affect the same country over a number of years,it is best to use figures on total numbers to calculate annual averages over adecade rather than as absolute totals (see the methodology <strong>chapter</strong> of thisannex).See note on UNDP’s Human Development Index country status in the section ondisaster definitions in the introduction to this annex.With 576 disasters, 2009 is the year with the lowest number of disasters of thedecade, far below the peaks of 2000, 2002 and 2005.Among continents, Africa and Asia experienced their smallest number ofdisasters of the decade. In the Americas and in Europe, this number was thesecond lowest of the last ten years.In 2009, the number of disasters for Oceania was the third highest of thedecade.Numbers of disasters were at their lowest level in 2009 in countries with veryhigh human development and medium human development, and near theirlowest level in countries with high human development. On the other hand, thisnumber remained proportionaly high in countries with low human development.With 39 per cent of all disasters, Asia remains the most frequently hit continentand is, in 2009, just below its decade’s average of 40 per cent.
Strictly under embargo until Wednesday 22 September at 00:01 GMT (02:01 Geneva time)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 TotalAfrica 5,392 4,520 7,639 6,160 4,246 3,184 5,789 3,695 3,039 3,142 46,806Americas 2,066 3,077 2,108 2,082 8,437 5,438 1,558 2,921 2,730 2,160 32,577Asia 88,056 105,960 89,427 39,030 238,404 90,796 20,634 15,581 235,618 9,744 933,250Europe 1,622 2,338 1,810 73,373 1,259 1,044 5,837 1,665 787 1,319 91,054Oceania 205 9 91 64 35 46 24 273 25 893 1,665Very high humandevelopment1,518 1,433 1,431 72,889 1,102 2,925 4,152 1,017 883 2,090 89,440High human development 2,478 2,905 2,843 2,983 2,572 1,961 2,707 3,182 1,589 2,804 26,024Medium humandevelopment15,049 33,643 16,085 43,446 247,165 93,414 24,318 17,391 237,373 11,000 738,884Low human development 78,296 77,923 80,716 1,391 1,542 2,208 2,665 2,545 2,354 1,364 251,004Total 97,341 115,904 101,075 120,709 252,381 100,508 33,842 24,135 242,199 17,258 1,105,352Source: EM-DAT, CRED, University of Louvain, BelgiumSee note on UNDP’s Human Development Index country status in the section ondisaster definitions in the introduction to this annex.In 2009 the number of people reported killed was the lowest of the decade, farbelow the decade’s average of 110,535.On the other hand, in Oceania, the number of people killed largely surpassedits peaks of 2000 and 2007.In 2009, 56 per cent of people killed by disasters lived in Asia, far below thedecade’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 theirdecade’s average (4, 3 and 0.2 per cent, respectively).The number of people reported dead was also the lowest of the decade incountries 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 deathtolls caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 (226,408 deaths), CycloneNargis in Myanmar in 2008 (138,366 deaths) and earthquakes in Sichuan,China in 2008 (87,476 deaths), Kashmir in 2005 (73,338 deaths) Bam, Iranin 2003 (26,796 deaths) and Gujurat, India in 2001 (20,005 deaths).ANNEX 1World Disasters Report 2010 – Disaster data167
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