chapter 4 - DRK

Strictly under embargo until Wednesday 22 September at 00:01 GMT (02:01 Geneva time)170ANNEX 1Table 5 Total number of reported disasters, by type of phenomenon and by year (2000 to 2009)2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Total 1Droughts / food insecurity 43 43 40 23 19 28 20 14 20 23 273Earthquakes / tsunamis 31 25 37 40 42 25 24 21 23 22 290Extreme temperatures 31 23 15 26 19 29 32 25 11 26 237Floods 2 158 157 171 160 132 195 229 218 169 150 1,739Forest / scrub fires 30 14 22 14 8 13 9 18 5 9 142Insect infestation 2 2 n.d.r. n.d.r. 12 n.d.r. n.d.r. n.d.r. n.d.r. 1 17Mass movement: dry 3 1 n.d.r. 1 n.d.r. 1 n.d.r. 1 n.d.r. 3 1 8Mass movement: wet 4 28 24 20 21 15 12 20 10 12 31 193Volcanic eruptions 5 6 7 2 5 8 12 6 7 3 61Windstorms 102 108 124 86 127 130 76 105 111 85 1,054Subtotal climato-, hydro- &meteorological disastersSubtotal geophysicaldisasters394 371 392 330 332 407 386 390 328 325 3,65537 31 45 42 48 33 37 27 33 26 359Total natural disasters 431 402 437 372 380 440 423 417 361 351 4,014Industrial accidents 51 54 48 52 81 76 62 52 38 43 557Miscellaneous accidents 58 50 52 45 62 66 33 43 30 27 466Transport accidents 259 221 260 237 216 229 205 174 191 155 2,147Total technologicaldisasters368 325 360 334 359 371 300 269 259 225 3,170Total 799 727 797 706 739 811 723 686 620 576 7,1841Since 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 chapter of thisannex).2Includes waves and surges.3Landslides, rockfalls, subsidence of geophysical origin.4Landslides, avalanches, subsidence of hydrological origin.Note: ’n.d.r.’ denotes ‘no disaster reported’.In 2009, the number of both natural and technological disasters was the lowestof the decade, far below their peak of 2005.Among natural disasters, the most frequent were floods (43 per cent),in a proportion equal to the decade’s average (also 43 per cent).Extreme temperatures (7 per cent) and mass movements of hydrological origin(9 per cent) surpassed their decade’s average (6 and 5 per cent, respectively).All other natural disasters were sligthly below their decade’s average.Among technological disasters, transport accidents were the most frequent, buttheir number was the lowest of the decade.The number of miscellaneous accidents was also the lowest of the decade.