The human cost of disasters: an overview of the last 20 years (2000-2019) Source Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

https://www.undrr.org/publication/documents-and-publications/human-cost-disasters-overview-last-20-years-2000-2019 UNDRR report published to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on October 13, 2020, confirms how extreme weather events have come to dominate the disaster landscape in the 21st century. The statistics in this report are from the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) which records disasters which have killed ten or more people; affected 100 or more people; resulted in a declared state of emergency, or a call for international assistance.