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Strictly under embargo until Wednesday 22 September at 00:01 GMT (02:01 Geneva time)176ANNEX 1Table 10 Total number of people reported killed, by type of phenomenon, by continent and by level of human development 1(2000 to 2009)Africa Americas Asia Europe Oceania VHHD HHD MHD LHD TotalDroughts / food insecurity 1,069 54 229,056 2 n.a. n.a. n.a. 728 229,453 230,181Earthquakes / tsunamis 3,335 2,047 447,320 601 250 420 1,252 450,244 1,637 453,553Extreme temperatures 125 1,406 8,738 80,127 347 75,801 5,278 7,999 1,665 90,743Floods 2 7,934 7,662 36,856 1,250 93 1,017 4,250 42,341 6,187 53,795Forest / scrub fires 154 73 3 200 206 424 50 112 50 636Insect infestation n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a.Mass movement: dry 3 98 108 66 n.d.r. 10 n.d.r. 72 210 n.d.r. 282Mass movement: wet 4 202 1,041 6,068 229 83 96 981 6,436 110 7,623Volcanic eruptions 206 16 8 n.a. n.a. n.a. 14 11 205 230Windstorms 1,273 9,998 160,242 521 300 5,758 788 165,240 548 172,334Subtotal climato-, hydro- &meteorological disastersSubtotal geophysicaldisasters10,757 20,234 440,963 82,329 1,029 83,096 11,347 222,856 238,013 555,3123,639 2,171 447,394 601 260 420 1,338 450,465 1,842 454,065Total natural disasters 14,396 22,405 888,357 82,930 1,289 83,516 12,685 673,321 239,855 1,009,377Industrial accidents 2,576 382 10,915 1,044 n.d.r. 177 1,021 12,807 912 14,917Miscellaneous accidents 3,361 2,302 7,524 1,540 36 1,205 3,199 9,679 680 14,763Transport accidents 26,473 7,488 26,454 5,540 340 4,542 9,119 43,077 9,557 66,295Total technologicaldisasters32,410 10,172 44,893 8,124 376 5,924 13,339 65,563 11,149 95,975Total 46,806 32,577 933,250 91,054 1,665 89,440 26,024 738,884 251,004 1,105,352Source: EM-DAT, CRED, University of Louvain, Belgium
Strictly under embargo until Wednesday 22 September at 00:01 GMT (02:01 Geneva time)1VHHD stands for very high human development, HHD stands for high humandevelopment, MHD for medium human development and LHD for low humandevelopment.See note on UNDP’s Human Development Index country status in the section ondisaster definitions in the introduction to this <strong>chapter</strong>annex.2Includes waves and surges.3Landslides, rockfalls, subsidence of geophysical origin.4Landslides, avalanches, subsidence of hydrological origin.Note: ’n.a.’ signifies ’no data available’; ’n.d.r.’ signifies ’no disaster reported’.For more information, see section on caveats in introductory text.During the decade:Medium human development countries accounted for 67 per cent of the totalnumber of reported deaths but for almost all deaths from earthquakes, 96 percent of deaths due to windstorms, 86 per cent of those caused by industrialaccidents and 79 per cent of deaths from floods.Low human development countries accounted for 23 per cent of the totalnumber of reported deaths but almost all deaths were caused by droughts / foodinsecurity and 89 per cent of deaths following a volcanic eruption.Very high human development countries accounted for 8 per cent of the totalnumber of reported deaths, but for 67 per cent of deaths from wild fires.High human development countries accounted for 2 per cent of the total numberof reported deaths but for 22 per cent of deaths from miscellaneous accidentsand for 14 per cent of those from transport accidents.ANNEX 1World Disasters Report 2010 – Disaster data177
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