Gustavo Bernal Torres
The Cost of 20 Years of Natural Disasters
UN Report charts huge rise in climate disasters-
In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 million lives, affecting 4.2 billion people (many on more than one occasion) resulting in approximately US$2.97 trillion in global economic losses.
This is a sharp increase over the previous twenty years.
Between 1980 and 1999, 4,212 disasters were linked to natural hazards worldwide claiming approximately 1.19 million lives and affecting 3.25 billion people resulting in approximately US$1.63 trillion in economic losses.
Source: https://www.undrr.org/news/drrday-un-report-charts-huge-rise-climate-disasters