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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 <strong>chapter</strong> 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.
Strictly under embargo until Wednesday 22 September at 00:01 GMT (02:01 Geneva time)Table 6 Total number of people reported killed, by type of phenomenon and by year (2000 to 2009)2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 TotalDroughts / food insecurity 76,379 76,476 76,903 38 80 88 208 n.a. 6 3 230,181Earthquakes / tsunamis 216 21,348 1,636 29,617 227,290 76,241 6,692 780 87,918 1,815 453,553Extreme temperatures 941 1,787 3,019 74,748 556 814 5,104 1,044 1,608 1,122 90,743Floods 1 6,025 5,014 4,236 3,772 7,100 5,764 5,863 8,565 4,037 3,419 53,795Forest / scrub fires 47 33 6 47 14 50 13 150 86 190 636Insect infestation n.a. n.a. n.d.r. n.d.r. n.a. n.d.r. n.d.r. n.d.r. n.d.r. n.a. n.a.Mass movement: dry 2 11 n.d.r. 60 n.d.r. 44 n.d.r. 11 n.d.r. 120 36 282Mass movement: wet 3 1,012 786 1,089 706 313 646 1,638 271 504 658 7,623Volcanic eruptions n.a. n.a. 200 n.a. 2 3 5 11 9 n.a. 230Windstorms 1,354 1,914 1,475 1,031 6,653 5,250 4,329 6,035 140,985 3,308 172,334Subtotal climato-, hydro- &meteorological disastersSubtotal geophysicaldisasters85,758 86,010 86,728 80,342 14,716 12,612 17,155 16,065 147,226 8,700 555,312227 21,348 1,896 29,617 227,336 76,244 6,708 791 88,047 1,851 454,065Total natural disasters 85,985 107,358 88,624 109,959 242,052 88,856 23,863 16,856 235,273 10,551 1,009,377Industrial accidents 1,807 1,279 1,112 1,444 1,797 2,281 1,832 1,656 776 933 14,917Miscellaneous accidents 1,341 1,341 2,013 1,438 2,115 2,669 1,126 909 895 916 14,763Transport accidents 8,208 5,926 9,326 7,868 6,417 6,702 7,021 4,714 5,255 4,858 66,295Total technologicaldisasters11,356 8,546 12,451 10,750 10,329 11,652 9,979 7,279 6,926 6,707 95,975Total 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, Belgium1Includes waves and surges.2Landslides, rockfalls, subsidence of geophysical origin.3Landslides, avalanches, subsidence of hydrological origin.Note: ’n.a.’ denotes ’no data available’; ’n.d.r.’ signifies ‘no disaster reported’.For more information, see section on caveats in introductory text.In 2009, deaths from both natural and technological disasters were at theirlowest level for the entire decade.Among natural disasters, the number of deaths from floods is the lowest of thedecade, but in proportion (32 per cent), it surpasses its 5 per cent decennialaverage.Conversely, forest / scrub fires resulted in the highest number and proportionof deaths.Deaths from industrial and transport accidents were the second lowest of thedecade; deaths from miscellaneous accidents, the third lowest.Most reported deaths caused by droughts and food insecurity during the decadewere attributable to the famine in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,although the estimates provided are disputed (see caveats in the introductorytext).ANNEX 1World Disasters Report 2010 – Disaster data171
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