EM-DAT Bangladesh: Natural Disaster Impacts and Economic Losses by Subtype

Aggregated historical figures for natural hazard events in Bangladesh, categorized by year and disaster subtype. Produced by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), the data tracks human and economic impacts including fatalities and financial losses.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the correlation between 'disaster subtype' and 'total number of deaths' to identify the most lethal hazard types in Bangladesh
• Modeling 'economic losses (adjusted)' over time to assess the financial impact of climate-related events on the national economy
• Evaluating the 'total number of people affected' per 'number of disasters' to measure changes in population vulnerability

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures for longitudinal financial analysis
• Disaggregated by specific disaster subtype rather than broad categories
• HXL-standardized fields for integration with other humanitarian datasets

Limitations

• Geographic scope is limited strictly to Bangladesh
• Potential underreporting of economic losses in disaster databases for localized events

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the EM-DAT database

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Bangladesh