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

Aggregated historical records of natural hazard events in Belgium, maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters. Each record tracks disaster frequency, fatalities, and economic impact categorized by year and disaster subtype.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the correlation between 'disaster subtype' and 'total number of deaths' in Belgium
• Modeling the trend of 'economic losses (adjusted)' over time to assess climate risk
• Comparing the 'total number of people affected' across different natural hazard categories

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures
• Categorized by standardized disaster subtypes
• Maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Limitations

• Geographically restricted to Belgium
• Aggregated by year rather than individual event level
• Economic loss reporting may vary in consistency over long historical spans

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the EM-DAT database

Freshness

Last updated March 2026

Geography

Belgium