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Strictly under embargo until Wednesday 22 September at 00:01 GMT (02:01 Geneva time)178ANNEX 1Table 11 Total number of people reported affected, by type of phenomenon, by continent and by level of human development 1(2000 to 2009), in thousandsAfrica Americas Asia Europe Oceania VHHD HHD MHD LHD TotalDroughts / food insecurity 276,890 7,308 739,975 1,273 n.a. n.a. 3,260 846,128 176,059 1,025,446Earthquakes / tsunamis 387 3,092 78,380 731 23 296 2,093 79,969 255 82,612Extreme temperatures n.a. 4,944 80,596 107 2 6 4,964 80,309 371 85,650Floods 2 23,596 29,245 892,535 3,570 167 13,330 16,561 901,380 17,841 949,112Forest / scrub fires 11 942 6 1,163 18 981 1,004 151 5 2,140Insect infestation 500 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 500 500Mass movement: dry 3 1 3 n.a. n.d.r. n.a. n.d.r. n.a. 4 n.d.r. 4Mass movement: wet 4 16 187 1,352 3 11 2 178 1,076 313 1,570Volcanic eruptions 405 691 391 n.a. 69 16 688 730 121 1,556Windstorms 4,455 26,162 365,913 3,247 368 12,914 15,480 370,505 1,245 400,144Subtotal climato-, hydro- &meteorological disastersSubtotal geophysicaldisasters305,467 68,787 2,080,378 9,364 566 27,233 41,446 2,199,549 196,333 2,464,561793 3,786 78,771 731 92 312 2,781 80,703 376 84,172Total natural disasters 306,259 72,573 2,159,149 10,094 657 27,545 44,227 2,280,252 196,710 2,548,733Industrial accidents 104 566 325 23 n.d.r. 49 553 319 96 1,017Miscellaneous accidents 215 12 179 24 n.a. 10 20 382 18 430Transport accidents 16 10 61 4 n.a. 8 6 28 49 91Total technologicaldisasters335 587 566 50 n.a. 68 579 729 162 1,538Total 306,595 73,161 2159715 10,144 658 27,613 44,806 2,280,981 196,872 2,550,272Source: 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 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 almost 89 per cent ofthe total number of people reported affected by disasters but for 97 per centof those affected by earthquakes / tsunamis, 95 per cent of people affected byfloods, 94 per cent of those affected by extreme temperature and 93 per centof those affected by windstorms.Low human development countries accounted for almost 8 per cent of thetotal number of people reported affected by disasters but for 54 per cent ofthose affected by transport accidents and 21 per cent of people affected bydroughts / food insecurities.High human development countries for 2 per cent of the total number of peoplereported affected by disasters but for 54 per cent of those affected by industrialaccidents, 47 per cent of those affected by wild fires and 44 per cent of peopleaffected by volcanic eruptions.Very high human development countries countries for 1 per cent of the totalnumber of people reported affected by disasters but for 46 per cent of thoseaffected by wild fires.ANNEX 1World Disasters Report 2010 – Disaster data179
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