Source:
Natural Disasters
Our World in Data
By Hannah Ritchie
and Max Roser,
This 2014 report
was updated
in November 2019.
It has many good charts ... but I have not included any charts because my computer
could not read the chart software they used.
Use the link above
to see all the charts.
Below is the summary
of the study from that link:
"Summary
"Natural disasters kill on average 60,000 people per year, globally.
Globally, disasters were responsible for 0.1% of deaths over the past decade. This was highly variable, ranging from 0.01% to 0.4%.
Deaths from natural disasters have seen a large decline over the past century – from, in some years, millions of deaths per year to an average of 60,000 over the past decade.
Historically, droughts and floods were the most fatal disaster events. Deaths from these events are now very low – the most deadly events today tend to be earthquakes.
Disasters affect those in poverty most heavily: high death tolls tend to be centered in low-to-middle income countries without the infrastructure to protect and respond to events."