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Historical Impact of Global Droughts and Economic Damages
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Tracking the global decline in human vulnerability to natural hazards reveals a significant success story in international resilience. While extreme events like cyclones, floods, and droughts continue to occur, the resulting death tolls have plummeted over the last century due to advancements in early warning systems, evacuations, and better infrastructure. For instance, while a 1970 cyclone in Bangladesh claimed over 300,000 lives, a storm of similar intensity in 2020 resulted in only 26 fatalities. This collection of records allows for the exploration of these long-term trends, illustrating how strategic investment in disaster preparedness has saved hundreds of thousands of lives despite a quadrupling of the global population.
Columns
- Country name: The specific nation or territory where the disaster data was recorded, featuring 236 unique locations.
- Year: The calendar year of the observation, ranging from 1900 to 2020.
- Number of deaths from drought: The total count of fatalities attributed to drought events.
- Number of people injured from drought: The count of individuals who sustained physical injuries during drought periods.
- Number of people affected from drought: The number of individuals requiring immediate assistance during a period of emergency.
- Number of people left homeless from drought: The count of people whose homes were destroyed or rendered uninhabitable.
- Number of total people affected by drought: The cumulative sum of people dead, injured, affected, or left homeless.
- Reconstruction costs from drought: The estimated financial expenditure required to replace lost assets.
- Insured damages against drought: The monetary value of economic losses covered by insurance policies.
- Total economic damages from drought: The overall financial impact of the event, including both insured and uninsured losses.
Distribution
The data is provided in a CSV file titled
natural-disasters new.csv, which is approximately 107.24 kB in size. It contains 3,068 valid records structured across 10 distinct columns. The records maintain 100% data integrity with no missing or mismatched entries reported. Updates are expected to be released on an annual basis to reflect the latest global disaster trends.Usage
This resource is ideal for conducting longitudinal studies on the effectiveness of disaster mitigation strategies and national resilience programmes. It is well-suited for economic modelling to assess the long-term financial burden of droughts compared to other natural hazards. Additionally, climate researchers and policy analysts can use these records to identify regional vulnerabilities and advocate for targeted investments in early warning systems.
Coverage
The geographic scope is global, encompassing 236 unique countries and regions. Temporally, the archive covers a 120-year span from 1900 through 2020. The demographic focus is on the total populations affected by various disaster metrics, providing a thorough view of humanity's changing relationship with natural hazards across the modern era.
License
CC0: Public Domain
Who Can Use It
Risk analysts and insurance professionals can leverage these records to calculate the historical probability and financial impact of major environmental events. Academic researchers may utilise the decadal averages to study the correlation between economic development and falling disaster mortality rates. Furthermore, governmental agencies can find this a valuable primary source for benchmarking national progress against international disaster resilience standards.
Dataset Name Suggestions
- Global Natural Disaster Mortality and Resilience Trends (1900-2020)
- Historical Impact of Global Droughts and Economic Damages
- International Disaster Database: Century of Human Vulnerability
- World Resilience Archive: Natural Hazard Deaths and Impacts
- Long-Term Global Disaster Economic and Fatality Metrics
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