Table 1

Global mortality and injury statistics by major disaster types, 1996–2015

Disaster type	Events (n)	Deaths	Injuries	Affected	Injury rate	Mortality rate
Disaster type	Events (n)	Deaths	Injuries	Affected	(per 10 000 affected people)	(per 10 000 affected people)
2006–2015
Earthquake	248	357 092	1 008 824	81 154 443	124.3	44.0
Storm	966	173 695	178 849	306 587 291	5.8	5.7
Flood	1672	56 948	68 289	799 364 939	0.9	0.7
Landslide	178	9551	1542	2 827 169	5.5	33.8
Volcanic eruption	55	460	636	1 969 490	3.2	2.3
Wildfire	87	749	4143	2 372 149	17.5	3.2
1996–2005
Earthquake	299	391 529	551 184	29 785 670	185.1	131.4
Storm	1019	65 430	229 766	320 925 715	7.2	2.0
Flood	1368	93 113	651 765	1 275 024 668	5.1	0.7
Landslide	198	8123	1939	1 104 387	17.6	73.6
Volcanic eruption	51	262	534	876 306	6.1	3.0
Wildfire	162	723	1662	500 133	33.2	14.5

Source: EM-DAT.1