EM-DAT Argentina: Natural Disaster Impact and Economic Loss Statistics

Aggregated statistics on natural hazard events in Argentina from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) track annual disaster occurrences and human impacts. The records include mortality rates, population displacement, and financial damages categorized by disaster subtype.

Use Cases

• Comparing 'total number of deaths' across different 'disaster subtype' categories to identify the most lethal hazard types in Argentina
• Analyzing trends in 'total number of people affected' over time to measure the effectiveness of national disaster mitigation
• Using 'economic losses (adjusted)' to model the long-term fiscal impact of natural hazards on the Argentine economy

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures for longitudinal financial comparison
• Categorized by specific disaster subtype for granular hazard analysis
• Standardized using the Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) format

Limitations

• Geographic scope is restricted to Argentina, requiring external joins for regional context
• Potential underreporting of 'total number of people affected' in remote or historical events

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the EM-DAT international disaster database

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Argentina