Author(s) Hoyois, P. ; Scheuren, J-M. ; Below, R. ; Guha-Sapir, D.

Annual disaster statistical review: numbers and trends 2006

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherche Santé et Société

This publication is an analysis of the disaster figures in 2006 compared to 2005 and 2000-04.

CRED has been publishing statistics on disasters every year since 1998, thanks to the generous support of the United States Agency for International Development Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA). This support has allowed to maintain CRED’s Emergency Events database (EM-DAT) which contains essential core data on the occurrences and effects of disasters in the world from 1900 until today. The main objective of EM-DAT is to inform humanitarian initiatives at national and international levels. It also rationalizes decision-making for disaster preparedness, as well as provides an objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting.