Source: Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
Country: Afghanistan, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Fiji, Haiti, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Japan, Lithuania, Niger, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Russian Federation, United States of America, World, South Sudan (Republic of)
Natural disasters1 in 2012
In 2012, 310 natural disasters were recorded in the EM-DAT database. They claimed 9,930 lives, affected over 106 million others and caused economic damages of US$138 billion.
There were no mega-disasters in 2012 in terms of human impact.
The largest disaster of 2012 in terms of mortality was Typhoon Bopha in the Philippines that resulted in 1,901 deaths. It was the strongest tropical cyclone on record to hit the southern Philippine island of Mindanao and affected over 6 million persons.