EM-DAT: Côte d’Ivoire Natural Disaster Impact and Economic Loss Data

Aggregated natural hazard statistics for Côte d’Ivoire provided by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED). The records track disaster frequency, human impact, and economic damage categorized by year and disaster subtype. This dataset serves as a historical record of the country's vulnerability to environmental events.

Use Cases

• Correlating 'disaster subtype' with 'total number of deaths' to identify the most lethal hazard types in Côte d’Ivoire
• Modeling historical trends in 'economic losses (adjusted)' for climate risk and insurance assessment
• Estimating humanitarian resource needs based on 'total number of people affected' trends over time

Strengths

• Includes inflation-adjusted economic loss figures for longitudinal financial analysis
• Categorized by specific disaster subtypes rather than broad hazard groups
• Uses HXL standards for humanitarian data interoperability

Limitations

• Aggregated by year and subtype, which masks the details of individual disaster events
• Economic loss data in disaster databases is frequently underreported due to inconsistent local reporting

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 according to metadata.

Geography

Côte d’Ivoire